The Legacy of Julius Caesar's Assassination
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The legacies of the Ides of March stretch from that very afternoon on March 14th 44BC to the modern day. From Roman times to the Medieval period, from Dante to Shakespeare, and from Brutus to the other infamous assassin he inspired in John Wilkes Booth, the echoes of Julius Caesar's assassination have continued to reverberate through time over the last two thousand years.
In this episode, the last of our special four-part miniseries on the Ides of March, Tristan sits down with Professor Maria Wyke of University College London to find out more about the political, social and cultural legacies of the fateful day that led to the birth of the Roman Empire and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host. |
| 0:14.2 | And in today's Potskarsk ball here we are. |
| 0:15.8 | We're at the end of our special mini series of episodes, all about the IEDS of March, |
| 0:21.1 | this month, this March. |
| 0:23.2 | We've covered the assassination of Julius Caesar. |
| 0:24.9 | We've covered the Ryzen's Fall of Brutus. |
| 0:27.0 | We've covered Mark Antony versus the Young Caesar, aka Octavian. |
| 0:32.2 | And now to wrap it all up, we're going to be talking about the legacy of this infamous |
| 0:36.7 | day in ancient history, the 15th of March, 44 BC, the legacy of the IEDS of March, the |
| 0:42.0 | legacy of Julius Caesar's assassination. |
| 0:44.5 | We're going to be covering a lot of ground. |
| 0:46.6 | We're going to be going from Roman times to the medieval period to the likes of Dante |
| 0:50.7 | to Shakespeare and the early modern period and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at Tubrutei |
| 0:56.0 | to be where the IEDS of March and all of that. |
| 0:57.9 | But then we're going to be going on from there too. |
| 0:59.6 | We're going to be talking about the role of Brutus in America in particular, the role |
| 1:04.2 | of Brutus to famous, or shall we say, infamous figures such as John Wilkes Booth before |
| 1:08.6 | them going down to the 20th and 21st centuries. |
| 1:11.8 | Now to talk to all of this, I was delighted to go and interview a couple of weeks back, |
| 1:15.9 | Professor Maria Wyke from UCL University College London, headed over to Maria's office. |
| 1:20.8 | We had a great chat. |
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