A group of as many as 60 conspirators decided to assassinate Caesar at the meeting of the Senate on March 15, the ides of March. Collectively, the group stabbed Caesar a reported23 times, killing the Roman leader. The death of Julius Caesar ultimately had the opposite impact of what his a...
On March 15 in 44 B.C., Caesar was stabbed 23 times by conspirators who believed themselves to be saviors of liberty and democracy. Instead, the daggers they thrust into Caesar dealt a fatal blow to the already wounded Roman Republic. Caesar’s Assassination Unleashes a Brutal Fight for ...
When the opportunity arose, they stabbed him to death. Yet Caesar was actually wildly popular with many Romans. At the funeral proceedings, Marc Antony raised Caesar's blood-soaked toga and waved it to stoke their anger, perhaps as part of a ploy to take power for himself. These days, ...
“When his sister Drusilla died, Gaius Caesar, that man who could no more grieve than rejoice as befits a princeps, fled from the sight and society of his citizens; he did not attend his sister’s funeral rites, he did not make funeral offerings to his sister, but in his Alban home h...
Julius Caesar invented another early cipher -- one that was very simple and yet confounded his enemies. He created enciphered messages by shifting the order of the alphabet by a certain number of letters. For example, if you were to shift the English alphabet down three places, the letter ...
In all productions of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar needs to get stabbed through the back. And at some point, in all versions of Star Trek, the primary spaceship - usually the Enterprise - must be destroyed. We won’t be surprised by the ship getting destroyed in Star Trek Beyond, but wh...
When the opportunity arose, they stabbed him to death. Yet Caesar was actually wildly popular with many Romans. At the funeral proceedings, Marc Antony raised Caesar's blood-soaked toga and waved it to stoke their anger, perhaps as part of a ploy to take...
In all productions ofJulius Caesar, Julius Caesar needs to get stabbed through the back. And at some point, in all versions ofStar Trek, the primary spaceship - usually theEnterprise- must be destroyed. We won’t be surprised by the ship getting destroyed inStar Trek Beyond, but what will...