There is a reason why reports of the assassination of Julius Caesar usually come with the tagline, “Ides of March.” Back in those days, the Romans did not count the days in sequence like we do today, but instead counted the days of each month backwards from three fixed points. Thes...
“It was made in 42 B.C., two years after the famous assassination, and is one of the most important and valuable coins of the ancient world. The front has a portrait of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Caesar’s assassins, and the other side dramatically has two daggers and the words EI...
At times, ancient Greeks and Romans practiced tyrannicide, the killing of a tyrant or dictator for the public good. Some of the men who killed Julius Caesar in 44 bce, for example, considered the slaying to be an act of patriotism to save the Roman republic from a would-be king. ...
This period encompassed the career of Julius Caesar, who eventually took full power over Rome as its dictator. After his assassination in 44 bce, the triumvirate of Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, Caesar’s nephew, ruled. It was not long before Octavian went to war against Antony in ...
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