Caesar's Betrayal: The Psychology of Political Murder

On March 15, 44 BCE, Julius Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times on the floor of the Theatre of Pompey by men who called themselves liberators - many of whom he had pardoned, promoted, or considered friends. The assassination was meticulously planned, yet its political consequences were precisely the opposite of what its architects intended. Rather than restoring the Republic, the killing of Caes...