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The Last Assassin - The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (Hardcover)
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The Last Assassin - The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (Hardcover)
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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.
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