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The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard EPUB



The final years of the Roman republic are usually recounted from the top, through the eyes of the big winners and losers: Brutus, Mark Antony, Emperor Augustus. But The Last Assassin, a thrilling narrative history, tells the well-known history from an exciting new perspective.



For 14 years after 44 BC, Cassius of Parma (Cassius Parmensis), one of the lesser-known assassins of Julius Caesar, watched from the wings as all of his coconspirators were murdered. He was a man of the Roman navy who chose every side in the empire's civil wars except the winning one; he was a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen by and published by the man sent to kill him; he is in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed to prevent a tyranny. And although he was the most successful at evading the future emperor Augustus' revenge, Cassius has been little more than a historical footnote - until now.



In telling the story of Cassius' flight from justice, The Last Assassin opens up a fascinating and well-known segment of Roman history from a new angle. The Battle of Actium, where Cassius fought on the losing side, decided the final civil war of the Roman republic - the empire established from Augustus' victory lasted until 1453. This book charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an ordinary man, participating in a world-changing sequence of events. It's also a gripping story of fear, revenge and survival.



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