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Assassination of Julius Caesar
44 BCE
Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC by a group of senators who claimed to be defending liberty. The murder took place after Caesar had accumulated exceptional honours and powers, raising fears that he meant to become king in all but name. The conspirators killed the dictator but not the crisis that had produced him.
The assassination mattered because it created another round of civil war rather than restoring republican government. Caesar’s supporters, especially Mark Antony and Octavian, used his memory and name as political weapons. The event became a turning point between the final republic and the birth of imperial rule.
The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most familiar Roman moments in historical fiction. Conn Iggulden’s Emperor series, Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome, Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy, and Steven Saylor’s novels all connect to the final crisis of Caesar’s rule and the conspirators around him. Stories centred on the subject often explore friendship, tyranny, republican idealism, fear, propaganda, and the unintended consequences of political murder.
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4 Best Non-Fiction Books About the Assassination of Julius Caesar
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