🎧 The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 50m
March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of disaffected senators.
In this episode–the first of our special Ides of March miniseries this month–Tristan (with a little help from Dr Emma Southon and Dr Steele Brand) untangles fact from fiction, truth from myth, to take you back to that very afternoon in the heart of Rome's doomed republic.
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