Today the Ides of March survives as a powerful historical metaphor. What was once simply a day for settling debts and ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar?

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, ...

Why did a group of Roman senators gather near Pompey's theater on March 15, 44 B.C., to kill Julius Caesar? Was it their fear of Caesar's tyrannical power? Or were these aristocratic senators worried ...

Brutus, Cassius, Cicero... and a betrayal that changed Rome forever. This is the true story behind Caesar’s fall.

Peter Stothard, The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 274 pp., $27.95. HISTORY IS mainly a matter of unforeseen outcomes yielding ...

A long-standing debate about whether Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a history play or a tragedy has been resolved by Daniel Sullivan’s production starring Denzel Washington: It is neither; it is a ...

Events beyond Caesar’s control threaten to unravel his plans, and leave him isolated. Events beyond Caesar’s control threaten to unravel his plans, and leave him isolated. Pushed into a corner, he ...

This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome! This expose briefly covers the rise and fall of Rome, including: ...

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