First in Recorded History: The Autopsy of Julius Caesar | A Body Bags Special Report: The "Best of Body Bags"

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On March 15th in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated by a group of senators who stabbed him 23 times during a Senate meeting.
The senators claimed Caesar's concentration of power threatened the Roman Republic. However, their efforts to restore the Republic failed, and the aftermath led to a civil war and the rise of the Roman Empire. His death also led to the earliest recorded autopsy in history.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host Dave Mack discuss the purpose of autopsies, Caesar's life, and leadership, the details of how he was attacked, the injuries sustained, and how this event shaped the course of history.

Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Background and overview
2:35 - What’s the purpose of an autopsy?
4:05 - Caesar’s life and work as a leader
7:15 - The day of Caesar’s assassination
9:15 - How the attack happened
10:50 - Caesar’s autopsy
13:20 - After someone is stabbed multiple times does blood keep flowing or will it eventually stop after a few hours?
17:10 - Could the doctor have attributed Caesar’s death to blood loss?
20:10 - What was the assassination plan for Caesar? Were there other injuries and what was Caesar's condition afterward?
22:10 - Where was the autopsy done?
23:40 - The start of 3D modeling
25:30 - How this event shaped history
27:05 - Outro

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0:41.1	I think a lot of us have heard that phrase
0:51.9	et tu, Brutei.
0:56.9	That term is actually a phrase that Shakespeare penned when he was writing one of his best-known plays regarding Caesar. It played
1:04.4	during the Elizabethan Times, and it captivated the crowd because it was the story of a leader
1:09.9	that was slain by those in his inner
1:13.1	circle. Of course, the phrase itself points to Brutus, who was certainly in Caesar's inner
1:20.0	circle. But is it really how his death happened? And of course, we like to talk about death.
1:26.0	And today we're going to talk about the
1:27.8	assassination of Julius Caesar and his autopsy. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
1:39.6	Great Caesar's ghost, Dave Mack. I want to have a conversation with you today about a historical
1:46.4	figure. Going back a couple of thousand years now, we're going to talk about the death of Julius Caesar
1:52.1	at the hands of those that surrounded him in a very public area, otherwise known as the forum.
1:58.9	You up for this, Dave, Mac?
2:00.7	Ides of March is upon us.
2:02.7	And a lot of people, like me, all we know about Julius Caesar is what Shakespeare wrote.
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