The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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 from The Ancients (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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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. This episode is one of our sibling podcasts |
| 0:05.5 | we've got an episode of The Entience with Tristan Hughes, The Tristorian Enjoy. |
| 0:19.2 | It's The Entience on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host. And in today's podcast |
| 0:24.6 | we'll listen to the beginning of our special Ides of March mini series today. We're going |
| 0:29.9 | to be talking about the death of Julius Caesar, the assassination of Julius Caesar himself |
| 0:35.0 | dictator of Rome on the 15th of March 44 BC. Now to kick off this mini series of episodes |
| 0:42.0 | this March, today we've got an explainer by yours truly and also featuring Dr. Emma |
| 0:47.9 | Southern and Dr. Steele Brand to give you a detailed rundown of the events of the 15th of March |
| 0:55.1 | 44 BC. The assassination of Julius Caesar as it happened. Now sit down, relax, enjoy the next |
| 1:01.8 | 45 minutes as we talk you through the assassination of Julius Caesar and the events that occurred |
| 1:07.8 | on the 15th of March 44 BC, arguably the most well known day in ancient history. |
| 1:21.1 | It was the 15th of March 44 BC. Gaya's Julius Caesar, 55 years old, has risen to become |
| 1:30.5 | the most powerful man in Rome. He was a master of battle, of bribery and of benefaction. |
| 1:39.0 | He'd recently emerged the victor of a brutal civil war. He'd reformed the calendar, |
| 1:44.4 | making it more fixed and regulated. And he'd received an unprecedented number of honours |
| 1:49.7 | from the Roman people, as Dr. Emma Southern explains. |
| 1:53.8 | He's given himself actually every possible title. He is censor, he has imparato, he is |
| 2:00.2 | pontifix maximus, he is dictator for 10 years until just about six weeks or so before |
| 2:06.3 | he's murdered, he's declared that he is dictator for life. |
| 2:09.1 | He has got a shiny golden chair, which he's allowed to sit in. He's got a statue of his |
| 2:14.7 | which is carried amongst the gods. So when they parade the statues of the gods at the |
| 2:19.3 | beginning of games and things, there's a statue of Caesar in there. He's got a statue |
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