The Hunt For The Killers Of Julius Caesar
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Peter Stothard joined me on the podcast to discuss the assassination of Julius Caesar. Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalised by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the podcast is with Peter Stothard. He is an author, he's just written a book |
| 0:05.0 | about the assassins of Julius Caesar really, one of the most infamous political assassinations in |
| 0:10.1 | history, stabbed by other members of the senate, jealous of his power or feared his power. |
| 0:16.4 | And the reason we're putting this one out today is because this is a huge week for |
| 0:21.0 | anniversary, it's from the ancient world, the classical world, it's the anniversary of the |
| 0:24.3 | Battle of Salamis. Apparently it's not the 2000th anniversary, it's the 1999th because the |
| 0:30.3 | year zero was not a year, so all of my celebratory tweets and thoughts and things are completely wrong, |
| 0:36.4 | not for the first time. That's happened, Battle of Gargamella, gigantic battle in which I'll |
| 0:41.7 | examine to the great, finally decisively one control the Persian Empire. As everybody knows, |
| 0:47.4 | by that extraordinary flanking attack out the right them back into the centre, heading for the |
| 0:53.0 | Persian king himself, astonishing act of military, it's a decapitation of the enemy, |
| 1:00.0 | astonishing charismatic leadership by Alexander, what, I mean, what a remarkable battle. |
| 1:04.6 | Alisia, also the anniversary of Alisia, is Julius Caesar's gigantic victory in Gaul. |
| 1:09.2 | At one stage he was besieging the Gauls and must himself besieged, again, personal leadership and |
| 1:14.1 | valour, important to that victory. But the Battle of Phyla Pai, which saw Mark Antony Octavian defeat, |
| 1:20.8 | so Alisia's assassins, he'll be hearing more about them in this podcast. And because it's all |
| 1:24.7 | about Classical history this week, I want to tell you all about our new podcast, it's called The |
| 1:28.0 | Ancients. It's with our in-house ancient historian Tristan Hughes, we call him the Tristorian on the |
| 1:34.2 | history at T. He has got a podcast out about a gripper who was kind of the, he was sort of Octavian's |
| 1:40.8 | right-hand man, that's putting it politely, I think he was sort of the military genius behind |
| 1:45.3 | the man who had become more gustess. So interesting podcast about him, great podcast not just about |
| 1:49.8 | the classical world, but looking at, for example, the Polynesian seafarers of the Pacific, my personal |
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