CAESAR'S LAST MEETING : THE ASSASSINATION THAT ALMOST FAILED

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Editorial: Independently Published Sep 2026, 2026

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Neuware - A man stopped Julius Caesar in the street on the morning of March 15, 44 BC and pressed a written warning into his hand. It named the conspirators. Caesar took it, could not get through the crowd to read it, and carried it into the meeting still folded in his fingers.Everyone knows how the day ended. Almost nobody asks how easily it might not have.The assassination of Julius Caesar is remembered as a masterpiece of political violence: precise, professional, inevitable. It was nothing of the kind. Sixty men kept a secret for weeks and leaked it constantly. There were no guards to defeat because the victim had sent his own away. The venue was an accident of a building fire. The first blow missed. The killers had no plan for the following morning, and by nightfall they were barricaded on a hill behind hired gladiators, having won.This book runs the day again, and again, and again - the version where the plot is discovered, the version where Caesar survives wounded, the version where Mark Antony gets through the door - not for entertainment, but because a counterfactual is the only instrument available for a question that matters far beyond Rome: which parts of a historical outcome were actually carrying the weight, and which parts merely arrived in time to be photographed.The answer is uncomfortable. The daggers changed less than anyone believed. The Republic the conspirators died to restore had already become a word without a thing behind it - a set of procedures that no longer decided anything, kept in service the way a company keeps a founder's portrait in the lobby. And the murder committed to save it may have been the reason its costumes survived another three centuries.Sharp, funny, and merciless about the stories historians tell themselves, this is the Ides of March as a near-miss, and the near-miss as a tool.Keywords: Julius Caesar, Roman history, counterfactual history, assassination, Roman Republic, ancient Rome, political power.…

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Título
CAESAR'S LAST MEETING : THE ASSASSINATION THAT ALMOST FAILED
Autor
Peter Kriger
Editorial
Independently Published Sep 2026
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
Neu
Encuadernación
Taschenbuch
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798173276537
Peso del artículo
371 gramos
Dimensiones
229x152x15 mm

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