What Happened to Every Man Who Stabbed Julius Caesar (Animated)

What happened to Caesar's assassins, the men who killed Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BC? More than sixty senators joined the plot (plenty of them only got to watch), and as far as anyone can tell, not one of the men whose fate we know died in bed. This is the whole story, animated: the plot, the morning it almost fell apart, the twenty-three wounds, the morning after (when they realized they had no plan), and what happened to every one of them the sources can still follow, down to the last man, fourteen years later. In this video: why the men who killed Caesar were mostly his friends and the enemies he had forgiven; Calpurnia's dream, Spurinna's warning, the scroll Caesar never read; what really happened in the hall of Pompey (and why "Et tu, Brute" is Shakespeare); the will, the funeral, and the poet killed for having the wrong name; Trebonius, Decimus, Cicero, Philippi, the ghost, the sacred grove of Cos; and the last of the assassins, Cassius of Parma. Chapters: 0:00 The Ides of March 1:21 Why sixty senators wanted Caesar dead 5:16 The morning everything almost went wrong: the warnings 8:02 The assassination: twenty-three wounds, one that counted 10:22 Now what? The will and the funeral 14:00 The first cross: Trebonius 17:52 Philippi: Brutus, Cassius and the ghost 19:44 The last one: Cassius of Parma 21:57 The tally: twenty names, ten crosses Sources: Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar and Life of Augustus; Plutarch, Lives of Caesar, Brutus, Antony and Cicero; Appian, Civil Wars; Cassius Dio, Roman History 44–51; Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus; Velleius Paterculus; Valerius Maximus; Seneca, Letters; Cicero, letters and Philippics. Modern: Barry Strauss, The Death of Caesar (2015); T. R. S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Scene dialogue is invented wording on documented events, except the lines the sources record. If you want more of Rome getting things wrong, a like and a subscribe help me make the next story for you:    / @totallyroman   #JuliusCaesar #AncientRome #IdesOfMarch