Philip Womack

Julius Caesar’s assassins were widely regarded as heroes in Rome

The tyrant Caesar had betrayed the ideals of the republic. But the conspirators were finally eliminated by the equally despotic Augustus, says Peter Stothard

‘The death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate’, by Vincenzo Camuccini. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 03 October 2020
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  • The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar

    Peter Stothard

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 261, £20

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