![]() ![]() ![]() International Relations & Foreign PolicyĪlthough Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has principally been passed to the modern world through the literary medium of Shakespeare's tragedy, Julius Caesar.Viking & Early Medieval Language & Literature Caesar’s gens, the Julii, were patriciansi.e., members of Rome’s original aristocracy, which had coalesced in the 4th century bce with a number of leading plebeian (commoner) families to form the nobility that had been the governing class in Rome since then. Caesar is well known to have had a love affair with Brutus mother, Servilia, the half sister of Marcus Porcius Cato.Ultimately, Brutus saw Caesar's tyranny as the greatest threat and, with his co-conspirator Gaius Cassius Longinus, instigated a Senate plot to kill him. All Viking & Early Medieval Europe Books to 42 B.C.E.) was a real person a Roman statesman who was torn between his loyalty to Caesar, a longtime protector, and his loyalty to the Roman Republic.Post-Medieval, Modern & Industrial Archaeology 101 BC after 42 BC) was a Roman matron from a distinguished family, the Servilii Caepiones.She was the daughter of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Livia, thus the half-sister of Cato the Younger.She married Marcus Junius Brutus, with whom she had a son, the Brutus who, along with others in the Senate, would assassinate Julius Caesar.After serving under Caesar in Gaul, Brutus was given command of Caesar’s fleet. Language & Literature in Late Antiquity Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman general who participated in the assassination of the dictator Julius Caesar, though he had been Caesar’s protégé.All Greece & the Hellenistic World Books Julius Caesar’s last days and the ensuing political clash between Octavian, Cassius, and Brutus have been famously captured in the five-act tragic play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
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