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Rianen Evans, a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at Latrobe University.

This is episode C. I. The Last Will and Testament of Caesar.

As a silence settled over the theatre of Pompe,

Rome moved quickly.

Will Brutus and Cassius be held as liberators and restorers of the Roman Republic?

Or will Rome lament the fall of its leader. Much of it comes down to the actions of Antony

and the legacy left in the will of Caesar. Here's Rianna Evans.

The immediate reaction to Caesar's assassination is really divided.

There's a lot of confused reaction, but some people are really happy about it.

And the best example we've got is Cicero who immediately on that very day on the

Ids of March writes a letter to one of the assassin and this is what it says it says I

congratulate you for myself I am rejoiced I congratulate you. For myself, I am rejoiced.

I love you.

I watch over your interests.

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