Research Paper On The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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The assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44BC is one of the most notorious events in history. You may be familiar with a version of events in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. But here are 10 things you may not know about one of the world's most famous political murders. Thanks to Shakespeare the stark warning of the soothsayer, "Beware the ides of March," means that people always remember March 15. Julius Caesar suffered 23 stab wounds on the Ides of March but only one of them, the second stab wound he received to the breast, was fatal to the 55-year-old. In his book The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination military historian Barry Strauss, says that the problem was that many of the estimated 60