44 BC · Europe · War
Senators killed Caesar on the Ides of March, claiming to defend the Republic after his accumulation of extraordinary power.
Atlas dossier · Biblical & ClassicalFree device narration · synchronized English captions · transcript available
Why it matters
Senators killed Caesar on the Ides of March, claiming to defend the Republic after his accumulation of extraordinary power.
Julius Caesar · Brutus · Cassius · Mark Antony · Octavian
The assassination did not restore republican stability; it triggered civil wars that produced Augustus and the Roman Empire.
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Open the item page and rights record ↗The Murder of Caesar, 1865 — Karl Theodor von Piloty; Public Domain; via Landesmuseum Hannover
Interpretation note
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