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The death of Caesar : the story of history's most famous assassination / Barry Strauss.

Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 BC is even more gripping than the play. Strauss shows Caesar's assassination was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, put together by disaffec...

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Main Author: Strauss, Barry S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Caesar, Julius > Assassination.
Caesar, Julius.
Assassination.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Return to Rome
  • Riding with Caesar
  • The best men
  • Decision in a villa
  • Caesar's last triumph
  • Part II. Blood on the stones
  • The birth of a plot
  • Wanted: assassins
  • Caesar leaves home
  • Murder
  • A republic in the balance
  • A funeral to remember
  • Part III. The road back
  • The struggle for Italy
  • Vengeance
  • Augustus.

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