The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome - ISBN:0470425237

The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome

Date: 22 April 2011, 09:42

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Quite simply, Yes! Dando-Collins(DC) scholarly work reads like a novel. If history was presented like this, there would be no drop-outs. The political machinations of the time of Caesar's death are fascinating and DC lays it out in wonderful detail. His variety of sources give differing accounts and seemingly leaves it up to you to decide and ponder whether Cesar's murder was justified. The book however is not without fault.
DC's bias against Caesar is evident in many passages but one comes to mind where he writes "The most striking thing about the more than sixty assassins is that in putting their lives on the line to join the conspiracy, none asked for anything..." (pg.229). Oh really? He constantly portrays the assassins as the light of democracy and republicanism and Brutus as nothing but "virtuous and noble". He makes the same mistake of many other historians and judges Caesar from the perspective of 21st Century morals and mores. 'By any definition, Cesar was a tyrant' DC tells us, but what he fails to tell you is that the Senators of the Republic were all out to enrich themselves at the expense of the conquered peoples. Caesar was a threat to their way of life and their riches due to his reforms and the big tent of opening up the citizenship of Rome to lesser barbarians. Please DC don't think for one minute they did it for the good of the Republic. Nor should your readers.

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