The ides : Caesar's murder and the war for Rome / Stephen Dando-Collins.

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Main Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Caesar, Julius > Assassination.
Rome > Politics and government > 265-30 B.C.
Rome > History > 53-44 B.C.
Physical Description:xv, 269 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pt. 1. THE CONSPIRACY. January 26, 44 B.C. : Seven weeks before the assassination
  • February 15, 44 B.C. : The Lupercalia
  • February 22, 44 B.C. : The Caristia reconciliaiton
  • February 24, 44 B.C. : Pressuring Brutus
  • March 1, 44 B.C., The Kalends of March : Dictator for Life
  • March 2, 44 B.C. : Recruiting fellow assassins
  • March 7, 44 B.C. : A visit from one of Caesar's generals
  • March 9, 44 B.C. : Porcia's secret
  • March 14, 44 B.C., Afternoon : Cleopatra and the Equirria
  • March 14, 44 B.C., Evening : The best sort of death
  • Pt. 2. THE MURDER. March 15, 44 B.C. : The Ides of March : Caesar awakens
  • March 15, 44 B.C. : The Ides of March : In the dark before the dawn
  • March 15, 44 B.C., The Ides of March : Caesar must suffer Caesar's fate
  • March 15, 44 B.C., The Ides of March : The crime
  • March 15, 44 B.C. : The gathering storm
  • Pt. 3. AFTERMATH AND RETRIBUTION. March 16, 44 B.C. : Pleading for the republic
  • March 17, 44 B.C. : The jostle for control
  • March 18, 44 B.C. : The liberators gain the advantage
  • March 19, 44 B.C. : Caesar's will
  • March 20, 44 B.C. : Caesar's funeral
  • March 21, 44 B.C. : Antony consolidates his grip
  • March 24, 44 B.C. : Enter Octavius
  • March 27, 44 B.C. : The name of Caesar
  • April 7, 44 B.C. : Wise Oppius
  • April 10, 44 B.C. : Caesar's heir
  • April 11, 44 B.C. : Octavian meets with Antony
  • April 14, 44 B.C. : The Aedile's refusal
  • April 22, 44 B.C. : Octavian seeks Cicero's support
  • May 11, 44 B.C. : I don't trust him a yard
  • May 18, 44 B.C. Undermining Antony
  • May 31, 44 B.C. : Reforming the Praetorian cohorts
  • June 2, 44 B.C. : Antony outsmarts the senate
  • June 7, 44 B.C. : No plan, no thought, no method
  • July 13, 44 B.C. : The last day of Brutus's games
  • July 20, 44 B.C. : The liberator's manifesto
  • July 28, 44 B.C. : Cicero's departure
  • August 16, 44 B.C. : Like Hector the hero
  • August 30, 44 B.C. : Cicero returns to Rome
  • September 15, 44 B.C. : The liberators reach Greece
  • September 23, 44 B.C. : Octavian's nineteenth birthday
  • September 28, 44 B.C. : The plot to assassinate Antony
  • October 9, 44 B.C. : A dreadful state of affairs
  • October 18, 44 B.C. : Antony joins his legions
  • November 4, 44 B.C. : Octavian recruits an army
  • November 18, 44 B.C. : The road to war
  • November 27-30, 44 B.C. : Antony's legions rebel
  • Early December 44 B.C. : The rise of the liberators
  • Second half of December 44 B.C. : Antony makes his move
  • January 1-4, 43 B.C. : Debating Antony's fate
  • Late December 44 B.C.-Early January 43 B.C. : The first assassin to fall
  • February 4, 43 B.C. : State of emergency
  • April 14-26, 43 B.C. : The Mutina Battles
  • May 7, 43 B.C. : Cassius overruns Syria
  • May 30, 43 B.C. : Lepidus's betrayal
  • August 19, 43 B.C. : Octavian charges Caesar's murders
  • Early November 43 B.C. : The Triumvirate and the Proscripton
  • December 7, 43 B.C. : Killing Cicero
  • October 1-21, 42 B.C. : The Battles of Philippi
  • Judging the assassins and the victim.