{"id":98948,"date":"2026-03-15T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98948"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:20:52","slug":"killing-caesar-the-ides-of-march-and-the-conspiracy-against-julius-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/15\/killing-caesar-the-ides-of-march-and-the-conspiracy-against-julius-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing CAESAR &#8211; the Ides of March and the conspiracy against Julius Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPGDyts4-qc?si=zccNe9OoDe66O99L\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 12 Mar 2025<\/p>\n<p>With the Ides of March a few days away, we take a look at the final months of Julius Caesar&#8217;s life and the conspiracy led by Brutus and Cassius. Both had fought against Caesar at the start of the Civil War, but later surrendered and were treated well by him. They were joined by men who had served Caesar in Gaul and during the Civil War, like Decimus Brutus and Trebonius and Sulpicius Galba. Why did they want to kill Caesar and how was the plot organised?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 12 Mar 2025 With the Ides of March a few days away, we take a look at the final months of Julius Caesar&#8217;s life and the conspiracy led by Brutus and Cassius. Both had fought against Caesar at the start of the Civil War, but later surrendered and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[1566,173,1391,650,1111,1345,553],"class_list":["post-98948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-assassin","tag-biography","tag-civilwar","tag-juliuscaesar","tag-romanrepublic","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pJW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98949,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98948\/revisions\/98949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}