The death of Caesar : the story of history's most famous assassination
Strauss, Barry S.2016
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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 Shakespeare's play. In this book, Barry Strauss tells the real story. Shakespeare shows Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot, put together by Caesar's disaffected officers and designed with precision. There were even gladiators on hand to protect the assassins from vengeance by Caesar's friends. Brutus and Cassius were indeed key players, as Shakespeare has it, but they had the help of a third man - Decimus.
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New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2016.
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xx, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22 cm
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Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781451668810 (pbk)
Dewey class:
937'.05'092937.05092
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English
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2275930
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