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9780197604878

The Last Assassin The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar

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    9780197604878

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    0197604870

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2021-10-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography


Peter Stothard is an author, journalist, and critic. He is a former editor of The Times of London and of The Times Literary Supplement. His books include Alexandria, The Last Nights of Cleopatra, and On the Spartacus Road, A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy.

Table of Contents


Prologue: The monster on the path

One: Through Caesar's country
Two: Parmensis and the first assassins
Three: Cicero's stage, Porcia's people
Four: Assassination day
Five: A list of many names
Six: Entry of a young hunter
Seven: Trebonius under torture
Eight: Decimus, third to die
Nine: Parmensis at sea
Ten: Basilus meets his slaves
Eleven: Cassius and Brutus
Twelve: The Cimber brothers
Thirteen: Hunted tent by tent
Fourteen: Sextus, honorary assassin
Fifteen: Abuse at Perusia
Sixteen: Parmensis alone
Seventeen: Find every living killer
Eighteen: Sextus betrayed
Nineteen: A man with a white face
Twenty: Parmensis's last stand
Twenty-one: A battle that never was
Twenty-two: Turullius, cutter of trees
Twenty-three: The last assassin

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