The Rest Is History · March 15, 2021 · 55m

The Ides of March: The Assassination of Julius Caesar

The Rest Is History

Holland and Sandbrook dissect the most famous assassination in history. Caesar's murder on the Ides of March was meant to save the Republic — instead it destroyed it. The conspirators' miscalculation changed the course of Western civilization.

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Highlights

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Revolutionary violence often produces the opposite of its intended outcome

Brutus and the conspirators killed Caesar to save the Roman Republic. The result was civil war and the permanent establishment of the very autocracy they feared.

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Charisma creates dependency — removing the leader doesn't remove the movement

The conspirators eliminated Caesar but not Caesarism. The army, the people, and the political system he'd created all survived him and demanded a successor.

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