The Rise and Fall of Brutus
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Marcus Junius Brutus is best known as one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, but there's so much more to his complex story. In today's episode, we continue our mini-series, all about the events of March 15th 44BC. Tristan is joined by Dr. Steele Brand to talk through the rise and downfall of Caesar's most notorious assassin; Marcus Brutus.
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Steele's previous podcast episodes:
The Battle of Mutina: Cicero's Fight for the Roman Republic - https://podfollow.com/the-ancients/episode/053ead730f990b45898047470c9ec94fcaf5f3f0/view
The Battle of Philippi: Death of the Roman Republic - https://podfollow.com/the-ancients/episode/0e0f02003858440d6407475519af2acbc2df4936/view
Killing for the Roman Republic - https://podfollow.com/the-ancients/episode/8a0032d0eede01855dc70296700444d00d983d6e/view
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Echants on History Hit. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's protocol we're continuing our mini-series, |
| 0:20.0 | our special mini-series of episodes this March all about the events of the 15th of March |
| 0:25.4 | 44 BC in other words the assassination of Julius Caesar. Last week we kicked off this special mini-series |
| 0:34.8 | by giving you an explainer of the assassination of Julius Caesar itself by yours truly but also |
| 0:41.2 | featuring excerpts from Dr. Emma Southerne and from Dr. Steele Brandt and today we're going to be |
| 0:47.6 | focusing in on the rise and fall of the most famous or shall we say infamous of Caesar's assassins. |
| 0:55.6 | Marcus Brutus the object of Caesar's Etto Brutte in Shakespeare the object of Caesar's |
| 1:02.0 | Qaisu Technon you too my child in Suetonius. Now in this podcast as mentioned we're going to be |
| 1:08.0 | giving you a detailed rundown of the rise and fall of Marcus Brutus we're going to be going from |
| 1:12.2 | his background from his early life all the way through to his role in the assassination of Julius |
| 1:18.0 | and then on to his ultimate downfall when he was fighting against the likes of Marcansni and Octavian |
| 1:24.7 | the young Caesar. Now joining me to talk through all of this I was delighted to get back on the |
| 1:29.5 | podcast one of our favorite guests of the ancients podcast this is Dr. Steele Brandt from the |
| 1:35.9 | King's College in New York. Steele he's been on the podcast a number of times before to talk |
| 1:40.9 | about topics varying from Cicero and his fight to save the Republic following Caesar's assassination |
| 1:46.8 | to the battles of Philippi which will no doubt also mention in this podcast to the ethos of |
| 1:52.4 | Roman Republican soldiers over several centuries. All those podcasts will put a link to in the |
| 1:58.0 | description below. Steele he's a fantastic speaker it's always a pleasure having him on the |
| 2:02.1 | podcast and I can guarantee that you're going to absolutely love this episode. So that further |
| 2:07.3 | ado to talk all about the rise and fall of Marcus Brutus here's Steele. |
| 2:11.8 | Steele great to have you back on the podcast wonderful to return to Tristan now always |
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