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Unit 4: People, power and authority (Julius Caesar)
Quick questions on The assassination and legacy of Julius Caesar: the Ides of March, the conspirators and changing interpretations for QCE Ancient History Unit 4
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What is the Ides of March?Show answer
On 15 March 44 BC, the Ides of March, Caesar attended a Senate meeting at the Curia of Pompey. Despite warnings (the soothsayer's warning to beware the Ides, his wife Calpurnia's dream, reported by Suetonius and Plutarch), he attended without his bodyguard. The conspirators crowded around him on a pretext and stabbed him; he received 23 wounds and died at the foot of Pompey's statue. The detail that he covered his face with his toga, and the much-later tradition of the words to Brutus, come from the literary sources and must be treated as part of a developing legend rather than verified fact.
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