The Assassination of Julius Caesar

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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, 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 Enchants on History Hit.
0:15.0	I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's episode where we are going back to one of the
0:20.2	most well-known days in ancient history, the Ides of March, the 15th of March 44
0:25.0	BC, the day that Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, was brutally assassinated.
0:31.3	In this special episode, featuring Dr. Emma Southern, Dr. Steele Brand and myself,
0:36.0	we're going to explain the story of Caesar's assassination.
0:39.0	From the background and the events that led to a conspiracy emerging to the main players in the
0:44.2	murder and the events of the infamous day itself fall to the brim with anecdotes immortalized
0:50.3	thanks to the likes of Shakespeare. I really do hope you enjoy and here's our
0:55.2	special explainer on the assassination of Julius Caesar. And the It was the 15th of March 44 BC. B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar, 55 years old, has risen to become the most powerful
1:27.7	man in Rome. He was a master of battle, of bribery, and of benefaction.
1:35.1	He had recently emerged the victor of a brutal civil war.
1:38.8	He had reforms the calendar, making it more fixed and regulated regulated and he had received an unprecedented number of
1:45.6	honors from the Roman people as Dr Emma Southern explains. He's given himself
1:50.6	virtually every possible title. He has Censer, he has Imperato, he is Ponsuex Maximus, he is dictator.
1:58.8	For 10 years until just about six weeks or so before he's murdered,
2:03.0	he declares that he has dictator for life.
2:05.2	He has got a shiny golden chair, which he's allowed to sit in.
2:09.0	He's got a statue of his which is carried amongst the gods. So when they parade the statues of the
2:15.2	gods at the beginning of games and things there's a statue of Caesar in there.
2:18.1	He's got a statue of himself amongst the ancient kings. He's made himself sacrosanct, so touching him in public is now illegal, and not just illegal but blasphemous or getting in his way. he's got temples to himself.
2:33.8	He's got temples, he's building a temple to his ancestors.
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