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 he saw that his friend Brutus was among the conspirators, Caesar (according to Shakespeare) said, “Et tu, Brute?” (You too, Brutus?). But historians say that when he saw Brutus, he pulled his toga over his head and did not utter a word. He was stabbed 23 times. Is it Brut...
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 ...