The Texas Observer, September 7th, 2007
Rendering Caesar Et Tu Brute? A Short History of Political Murder By Greg Woolf Harvard University Press 224 pages, $19.95 What might distinguish assassination from an ordinary offing is that its victim has a bodyguard. If so, the violent incident on March 15, 44 B.C. was merely bloody murder. Despite portents of misfortune, Caius Julius Caesar was not shielded by the Praetorian Guard when he strode into the senate house and seated himself among men he trusted with his life. The Roman dictator was stabbed once by each of 23 conspirators, including his protégé, the urban praetor Marcus Juniu...
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