44 BC | Caesar’s Funeral

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Every now and then Marc Antony pulled a blinder, this was one of them.

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Mark Antony had his moments...

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[@RavenStillBeguiling]

A funeral which changed the course of history.

[@lukang72]

Brilliantly, vividly and movingly described. Bravo!

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Absolutely love this content keep it coming

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

I often think how things would have turned out if Caesar had lived a long life... But alas twas not to be

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when you think you've hit the bed rock of human duplicity there's just another floor underneath.

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"Look , in this place ran Cassius dager through See what a rent the envius Casca made Through here the well beloved Brutus stabbed "

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[@CmdrMic]

Nice, but not properly in keeping with Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus's History of the 12 Caesars. No mention of the crowd stealing the body there... What is your source for that please?

[@SavingHistory]

We do not rely heavily on any single source here as they all wrote from their own political perspectives - Seutonius wrote to flatter the Flavians by giving a salacious gossip-layered history of the previous dynasty. We do use him, however, in conjuction with all available sources. We then try to find the common ground so that we can tread the path that, at least to us, feels most believable within the scope of human behavior. But it was Cassius Dio who told us that the mob took hold of Caesar’s corpse and dragged it about the city - wanting first to burn it in the Curia where Caesar was killed, then thinking to burn it in the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, ultimately settling for the pyre they created in the Forum Romanum. But even without Cassius Dio, we would still know the crowd somehow got their hands on his body simply because Caesar’s funeral pyre had already been constructed on the Campus Martius, yet the dictator ended up being cremated by the people in the Forum. 😀

[@user-uo7fw5bo1o]

7:00 to 7:20 What was left unsaid was that the wax image of Julius Caesar was mounted - nailed - on a ✝️ cruciform tropaeum! ✝️ And the Romans did the same at the funerals of the subsequent defied Caesars, the last it seems was Constantine "the great". Sources: Francesco Carotta, _Was Jesus Caesar?_ _The Gospel of Caesar_ Justin Martyr, _1st Apology_ 55

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Its a long was away but i cant wait for the greats like Theodoric the great Alaric and king Totila to be talked about