The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 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 (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 | It's the Ancients on History Hit. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and in today's podcast, well it's the beginning of our |
| 0:17.3 | special Ides of March mini-series today, we're going to be talking about the death of Julius |
| 0:22.9 | Caesar at the assassination of Julius Caesar himself, Dictator of Rome on 15 March 44 BC. |
| 0:29.9 | Now to kick off this mini-series of episodes this March, today we've got an explainer |
| 0:35.4 | by yours truly and also featuring Dr. Emma Southern and Dr. Steel Brand to give you |
| 0:41.2 | a detailed rundown of the events of the 15th of March 44 BC. |
| 0:47.6 | The assassination of Julius Caesar as it happened. |
| 0:50.4 | Now sit down, relax, enjoy the next 45 minutes as we talk you through the assassination |
| 0:55.7 | of Julius Caesar and the events that occurred on 15 March 44 BC, arguably the most well-known |
| 1:03.0 | day in ancient history. |
| 1:13.3 | It was the 15th of March 44 BC. |
| 1:16.7 | Gaya's Julius Caesar, 55 years old, has risen to become the most powerful man in Rome. |
| 1:24.6 | He was a master of battle, of bribery and of benefaction. |
| 1:29.7 | He had recently emerged the victor of a brutal civil war. |
| 1:33.4 | He had reformed the calendar, making it more fixed and regulated, and he had received |
| 1:38.6 | an unprecedented number of honours from the Roman people, as Dr. Emma Southern explains. |
| 1:44.5 | He's given himself actually every possible title. |
| 1:47.3 | He is censor, he has imparato, he is pontifix maximus, he is dictator. |
| 1:53.6 | For ten years until just about six weeks or so before he's murdered, he's declared |
| 1:58.0 | that he is dictator for life. |
| 1:59.8 | He has got a shiny golden chair, which he's allowed to sit in. |
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