The last assassin : the hunt for the killers of Julius Caesar
Stothard, Peter2021
Book
Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March. The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known, Cassius Parmensis, a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. This book charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge and survival.
Main title:
The last assassin : the hunt for the killers of Julius Caesar / Peter Stothard.
Author:
Stothard, Peter, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474613163 (pbk)
Dewey class:
937.05092937.05092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3151461