The Ides of March: the assassination of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was assassinated on 15 March 44 BC at a Senate meeting in the Curia of Pompey in Rome.
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Julius Caesar was assassinated on 15 March 44 BC. Learn who Brutus and Cassius were, where the killing happened, why it happened and what followed.
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Rome, 15 March 44 BC. Julius Caesar arrives for a Senate meeting in Pompey's theatre complex. A group of senators gathers close around him, using a petition to draw his attention. Then the conspirators attack. Among them are Marcus Brutus, Cassius and Decimus Brutus, men united against Caesar's permanent domination. Caesar dies in the Curia of Pompey. His killers emerge claiming liberty, but they have no secure command of Rome or its armies. The struggle passes to Antony, Caesar's adopted heir Octavian and their rivals. Assassination opens the way to renewed civil war.
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