The last assassin: the hunt for the killers of Julius Caesar
Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story. The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known: Cassius Parmensis was a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying Republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of the highest political principles and lowest personal piques. For fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters but has been barely a historical foot note--until now. The Last Assassin dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge, and survival |
| Beschreibung: | First published in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing Group in 2020 |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 274 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Prologue. The monster on the path i 1. THROUGH CAESAR’S COUNTRY 15 2. PARMENSIS AND THE FIRST ASSASSINS 24 3. CICERO’S STAGE, PORCIA’S PEOPLE 37 4. ASSASSINATION DAY 49 5. A LIST OF MANY NAMES 64 6. ENTRY OF A YOUNG HUNTER 75 7. TREBONIUS UNDER TORTURE 88 8. DECIMUS BESIEGED 96 9. PARMENSIS AT SEA no 10. BASILUS MEETS HIS SLAVES 115 11. CASSIUS AND BRUTUS 134 12. THE CIMBER BROTHERS 144 13. HUNTED TENT BY TENT 159 14. SEXTUS, HONORARY ASSASSIN 165 15. ABUSE AT PERUSIA 174 16. PARMENSIS ALONE 187 17. KILL EVERY KILLER 195 18. SEXTUS BETRAYED 202
19. A MAN WITH A WHITE FACE 214 20. PARMENSIS’S LAST STAND 222 21. A BATTLE THAT NEVER WAS 230 22. TURULLIUS, CUTTER OF TREES 239 23. THE LAST ASSASSIN 241 Sources 247 Bibliography 260 Acknowledgements 262 List of Illustrations 263 Index 264
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CONTENTS Prologue. The monster on the path i 1. THROUGH CAESAR’S COUNTRY 15 2. PARMENSIS AND THE FIRST ASSASSINS 24 3. CICERO’S STAGE, PORCIA’S PEOPLE 37 4. ASSASSINATION DAY 49 5. A LIST OF MANY NAMES 64 6. ENTRY OF A YOUNG HUNTER 75 7. TREBONIUS UNDER TORTURE 88 8. DECIMUS BESIEGED 96 9. PARMENSIS AT SEA no 10. BASILUS MEETS HIS SLAVES 115 11. CASSIUS AND BRUTUS 134 12. THE CIMBER BROTHERS 144 13. HUNTED TENT BY TENT 159 14. SEXTUS, HONORARY ASSASSIN 165 15. ABUSE AT PERUSIA 174 16. PARMENSIS ALONE 187 17. KILL EVERY KILLER 195 18. SEXTUS BETRAYED 202
19. A MAN WITH A WHITE FACE 214 20. PARMENSIS’S LAST STAND 222 21. A BATTLE THAT NEVER WAS 230 22. TURULLIUS, CUTTER OF TREES 239 23. THE LAST ASSASSIN 241 Sources 247 Bibliography 260 Acknowledgements 262 List of Illustrations 263 Index 264 |
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