🎧 The Legacy of Julius Caesar's Assassination
🎧 The Ancients • 54m
The legacies of the Ides of March stretch from that very afternoon on March 14th 44BC to the modern day.
From Roman times to the Medieval period, from Dante to Shakespeare, and from Brutus to the other infamous assassin he inspired in John Wilkes Booth, the echoes of Julius Caesar's assassination have continued to reverberate through time over the last two thousand years.
In this episode, the last of our special four-part miniseries on the Ides of March, Tristan sits down with Professor Maria Wyke of University College London to find out more about the political, social and cultural legacies of the fateful day that led to the birth of the Roman Empire and so much more.
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