The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Five Sources of Caesar's Death
The earliest account is from the reign of augustus, so it's only about 30 odd years later. Niclaus of damascus e us, trying to get back into augustu's good books when he writes it. Then we have suetonius, who is writing under the emperor hadrian. And plutarch is a little bit later, about 200 ish, who writes biographies. He sees caesar as being a parallel to alexander the great. cassius dio, who is the least detailed, and is writing in two 22 30 od so two hundredand 50 years later. Sadly, none of these five sources are contemporary accounts. But what about c
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