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Watch Caesar’s death become the lie that helped destroy the Roman Republic

Caesar’s assassination was supposed to save the Roman Republic, but it helped destroy it instead. Once the Senate declared him divine in 42 BC, Octavian seized the moment and turned that sacred image ...
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Opinion: If students want to understand politics, they should start with ancient Rome

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic’s ruin still influences how we ...
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Brown: ‘Et Tu Brute, Beware the Ides of March’ – did Caesar drink a poison first?

Hauntingly, Shakespeare presents us with the horrific premonition of Calpurnia and her unheeded warning to her husband. Thus, one is prompted to ask if Julius Caesar knowingly allowed himself to be ...