Mini Episode – Beware the Ides of Jon Snow…

The Partial Historians · Mar 15, 2022 · 7m

The most famous assassination in Roman history took place during the Ides of March. Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, was stabbed to death in Pompey’s Senate House by a group of conspirators. What exactly were these men hoping to accomplish? Caesar had been taking up too much air-time and was changing the nature of the Republic into something suspiciously close to monarchy. Well, you can’t have that! What are the other elite Roman men supposed to do if one man rules all?

Since 44 BCE, this assassination has inspired and perhaps plagued many political theorists, filmmakers…