How Julius Ceasars Assassination was Justified

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The Death of Julius Caesar is a key moment in our shared history around the world. The man's life undoubtedly caused incredible change in the way the Roman world and to a greater extent, the world itself moved forward. His murderers though, have been thoroughly vilified by history and we often forget that in their own way, they did have a justification for their actions rooted in history. • I recorded this two days after the 24 hour live stream so I am a little slower. But I hope you enjoy something a bit different, I am the History of Everything Channel afterall. • Discord: / discord • Reference List: • Ancient Sources: • Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 1, Books 1-2. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, 2004. • Appianus, B. C. McGing, Appianus, and Appianus. “Book II.”. In Roman History, 415–33. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. • Holden, Hubert Ashton. Plutarch's Life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. CUP Archive, 1886. • Sallust, The War with Catiline; the War with Jugurtha, trans. J.C. Rolfe. Loeb Classical Library 116. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA London 2013. • Modern Sources: • Cornell, Tim. “The beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC)” Routledge, 2012. 215-240 • Duncan, Mike. The storm before the storm: The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic. Hachette UK, 2017. 41-92 • Flower, Harriet I. Rome's First Civil War and the Fragility of Republican Political Culture. In Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars. Oxford University Press, 2010. • Goldsworthy, Adrian. “Instinctive genius”: The depiction of Caesar the general. Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments (1998): 193-220. • Lintott, Andrew William. Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic: A new edition, with translation and commentary, of the laws from Urbino. Cambridge University Press, 1992. • McDermott, William C. Caesar's projected Dacian-Parthian expedition. Ancient Society 13 (1982): 223-231. • Ridley, Ronald T. The origin of the Roman dictatorship: An overlooked opinion. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 122, no. H. 3/4 (1979): 303-309. • Wiseman, T. P., and M. Citroni. The Legend of Lucius Brutus. (2003): 21-38.

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