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The Ides of March: When Silence Breaks
This episode follows the final hours leading to the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.
As Caesar’s power consolidates and open resistance disappears, a group of senators—including Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus—conclude that the system can no longer correct itself from within. Inside the Theatre of Pompey, accumulated tension finally erupts into violence.
Yet the assassination quickly reveals a deeper truth: removing Caesar does not restore the Republic, because the forces that elevated him were never about one man alone.
The episode explores how suppressed…
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