Ides of March - The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Walks of Italy

Travel back in time in the footsteps of Julius Caesar on his final day, the Ides of March, March 15th 44 BC. You'll #takewalks with Jason Spiehler, co-founder of Walks of Italy and ancient Rome historian. We hope you enjoy this mini documentary that tells one of the most important stories of the western world! www.walksofitaly.com
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[@paulcapaccio9905]

Rome is by far the most important city on earth. We’ve been there 30 times and call it home now

[@kimberlypatton205]

I would give my right arm just to be able to visit the great city of Rome ,just once! But these videos are so great! I’m so thankful and glad we have this technology today! So much better than having to rely on pictures in outdated books in the library like I had to do in my teens in the 70’s! Magnificent!

[@paulcapaccio9905]

@@kimberlypatton205 you would remember Rome forever. It’s not merely a place but rather an experience . You are immersed into history on every street corner .

[@deanodog3667]

Been twice , amazing place !

[@danielefabbro822]

More than two thousand years have passed, but people still brings flowers to Caesar tomb.

[@lexruaya3940]

Your narration on the death oh Julius Cesar was great. Thank you.

[@pantera9442]

A very good video, I love how you paid honor to the Divine Julius, man, nice job 👍🏻

[@louiseleaper7659]

It was an absolute dream come true to visit Ancient Rome and, one I have done 4 times now. I cannot describe the feeling that you get upon " being there ". Everyone in their lifetime should visit!

[@paulcapaccio9905]

You are so correct. We’ve been there 30 times !

[@dancinglatino3967]

I have just visited Italy in April , including the Roman Forum. Thank you for your brilliant narrative!

[@marcotastinelli2983]

I love Rome. The most important city in the world. Honored to live here

[@kcx2678]

I wish to see your beautiful and most significant country someday.

[@paulcapaccio9905]

We’ve been there 30 times ! History is all around you . No city on earth can claim that. Bella Roma eterna ! We want to buy an apartment there. I’m into Roman history so much Also Forza Roma per sempre

[@danielefabbro822]

​@@kcx2678 Rome is eternal, there's always time to see her. 😉👍

[@ronaldmessina4229]

Estoy completamente de acuerdo

[@jcupak744]

I walked by the temple during my tour of Rome. It was a long-held dream of mine to see it.

[@XTen1000DaysX]

I saw the grave when there. I wish I could of saw the ampitheater of pompei where he got stabbed though.

[@abaaba3257]

@@XTen1000DaysX See*

[@XTen1000DaysX]

@@abaaba3257 huh?

[@tartaries926]

It is great to find these things on the internet right now in the sad times of covid war. I am watching it and and dreaming about going to visit Caesar's Roma....Via Pia, Pompey the Great villa in Albano .... etc. Thank you for giving here such a great inspiration for my next travel plans when the world returns to normal

[@christopherthrawn1333]

Thanks for the history

[@charleslynching]

Outstanding thanks !

[@hannahlarocco7467]

Very sad. But it’s good to learn about history and roman history to!

[@paularowe7651]

I share the same birthday as Caesar... July 13th.

[@Boo-lr8fj]

Wasn’t it July 12th??? Not July 13th.

[@KkotByul7]

Amazing video, thank you so much!

[@juliuscaesare2666]

Ave caesar murituri te salutant...

[@lubomirbaluch4081]

Wow ! What the video😮

[@WalksTours]

Thanks! We actually filmed it last year and wanted to put it out, but it was a bit late, so we waited. It's a bit long, but the story deserves it! :-)

[@hannahlarocco7467]

Hi

[@kimberlypatton205]

What a fantastic video! He will always be a great man and an inspiration to me! Long live Caesar!

[@davidinaho4788]

Such a well-done presentation...very impressive....Thank you

[@judyferguson8134]

That was really informative and well told. Thanks for sharing.

[@elizabethwilliamson7373]

Awesome video.

[@henrygoodbar9477]

Vale, Imperator..

[@ysaelcaban6589]

2020 anyone?

[@billdawson3212]

Yes the modern buildings in that semi circular shape approximate the outer wall of the theatre portion. But that isnt where Caesar was murdered, according to contemporary historians. It was inside the curia, the temporary meeting place of the senate. Caesar was seated when the attack began. Tullius pulled his toga down exposing his neck, the signal to attack. Casca cut Caesar's neck, but it wasn't deep or fatal. Then the others joined in as Caesar rose and, turning one way and then another tried to defend himself, but was surrounded. When he saw Brutus had drawn his dagger also, he is said to have pulled his toga over his head and slumped against the statue of Pompey where he died. The was at the other end from the theatre, so not at the semicircular wall indicated in this video. Researcher believe the actual spot is located underneath the raised roadway beside the exposed excavated area. I believe visitors are allowed to see it, but I am not sure about that. It would have been nice if we could have seen that spot. Perhaps some day I will be able to visit and see it myself.

[@louiscypher2221]

Actually, the tree he points out in the video at 4:00, which he calls the entrance to Pompey's Theatre, was in fact the back of the Curia Pompeia. There is about 100 square feet of it's base that is exposed at the Largo di Torre Argentina site there. The tree is smack in the middle of the back of the curia, very near to where Pompey's statue would have stood at the back of the hall, at the foot of which Caesar died. So when you look down from the sidewalk there, you are really just a few feet above the spot where Caesar lay dead on the floor of curia by the statue.

[@alland1241]

@@louiscypher2221 Agreed, there's even a small plaque on the railings telling you so, The hotel we were staying in was built on the curved back wall and has its dining room in the cellar showing off all of the original arched brickwork, we were lucky that most of the younger folks who worked at the hotel were Italian students and knew more than you could ever find on the internet, it's just a shame that over the years of it's existence it's all been built and rebuilt over so many times you can never quite put your finger on anything exactly

[@forzastella1]

Thank for for this info

[@stokerslodge]

“Again, when he was offering sacrifice, the soothsayer Spurinna warned him to beware of danger, which would come not later than the Ides of March; 3 and on the day before the Ides of that month a little bird called the king-bird flew into the Hall of Pompeyg with a sprig of laurel, pursued by others of various kinds from the grove hard by, which tore it to pieces in the hall. In fact the very night before his murder he dreamt now that he was flying above the clouds, and now that he was clasping the hand of Jupiter; and his wife Calpurnia thought that the pediment72 of their house fell, and that her husband was stabbed in her arms; and on a sudden the door of the room flew open of its own accord. 4 Both for these reasons and because of poor health he hesitated for a long time whether to stay at home and put off what he had planned to do in the senate; but at last, urged by Decimus Brutus not to disappoint the full meeting which had for some time been waiting for him, he went forth almost at the end of the fifth hour; and when a note revealing the plot was handed him by someone on the way, he p111 put it with others which he held in his left hand, intending to read them presently. Then, after several victims had been slain, and he could not get favourable omens, he entered the House in defiance of portents, laughing at Spurinna and calling him a false prophet, because the Ides of March were come without bringing him harm; though Spurinna replied that they had of a truth come, but they had not gone.” (Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars)

[@garretfox7807]

Caesar said "Kai su, teknon?"

[@devv3329]

when i hear Caesar's name it reminds me of little Caesars pizza

[@baroqueguitarist5673]

Caesarian the child of Julius Casear and Cleopatra reminds me of little caesar pizza. I would guess that's who the pizzeria chain was named after. The child of the greatest emperor of rome and pharaoh of egypt. Plus Cleopatra on top of being pharaoh of egypt was part of Ptomolomy's blood line... Who was a top general of Alexander The Great. So imagine the prestige that kids bloodline had at the time. He had Julius Caesar's bloodline, and The Ptomolomy bloodline... Current Pharaoh of Egypt and argueably the sucessor to Alexander The Great. The kid was born for conquest and his blood line at the time would have been unmatched by anyone. Even today I can't think of anyone who's ever existed in history with a stronger royal bloodline. Hence why he was killed.

[@lamorte42]

Damn I would have liked to know what that letter to Caesar said.

[@hannahlarocco7467]

I 2nd that. I agree salad is another story. I do love salad though. Believe me I love history

[@ruthsoriano577]

Brutus name a salad after me. -Julius Caesar

[@ZanyZapi]

Veni Vidi Vici

[@deanodog3667]

Murdered by cowards and so called stoics , all pardoned men also!

[@jahmah519]

Rome was the only city with over a million people for over 1000 years before any caught up, what an history. Rome still running things to this day, we still got the senax

[@pierrejourdan4819]

Très bon travail ! Vidéo divertissante et dans le même temps très documentée. Je comprends un peu l'anglais mais c'est un peu dommage de ne pas avoir de traduction en français...

[@pieropugliese1626]

Rome Forever love and life

[@michaelmagnus9]

It seems the ceremonial entrance to the curia is on it's western face, from within the gardens of the Pompey Theater complex. Not on it's eastern face, on the Sacred Area side. That's what the model shows at any rate, and it makes sense as there's very little room for grand stairs between the temples and the wall of the curia. Thus while Caesar might have seen the columns of the temples from his litter, depending on the route taken to the area from the Domus Publica, he surely disembarked from it within the garden area and entered from the west.

[@saveUyghurs]

I think he confused facts with a bit of fiction from Shakespeare’s play. The soothsayer didn’t say those lines

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

I name my daughter Julia! in honor of gens Julia.

[@davehallett3128]

Great arm movement. What were you saying again

[@vphima]

Everything is not new, probably everybody who likes history knows this story. What is different ? It is unexpected connection between two worlds. You did it. Thanks . Not everything is correct but it is not diminished the video.

[@antogasong8524]

for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword

[@calimero7538]

Even in Rome there happens to be anachronistic in uniforms Legionaires.

[@charlescasey9799]

Fine to Julius

[@sotony7483]

Completely wrong. Caesar was murdered in the Curia building, at the opposite end of the garden of the Theatre of Pompey complex, not in the Theatre itself, but very near the republican temples now in the Largo Argentina. Essentially under the road on the west side of the Largo Argentina.

[@drott150]

Look at those hands go. I think this guy missed his true calling as a masseuse.

[@davehallett3128]

drott150 hahagahaha. Nice one. Two arms

[@kennethmichael5404]

There is no evidence that supports Caeser saying anything as he was being attacked or lay dying. The supposed quote was written around 100 years after his murder. In fact, it was made famous only through a play that portrayed his assassination.

[@danielesaletti536]

I love Rome and I plan to live there one day. But, I have to say that Gaius Julius Caesar has been responsible of a genocide. Before the war of Gauls, there was 4 millions people living in Gaul. After the end of the war, the population of Gaul was only 2 millions: one million dead and another million sold as slaves (when Caesar died, he has a fortune of 700 millions sesterces!). Entire villages and tribes were slained by the legions of Caesar because of their help to the uprising of Gaul that followed the occupation of their territories by his army.

[@Verdreman]

Julius Caesar:*dies* Me:I LIVE! (I guess its funny(not really)) (god I am terrible) *its because I was born on march 15*

[@morse8622]

Ye

[@babushkablyattv2751]

The date that julius ceasar died

[@hannahlarocco7467]

Caesar: I die Me: traitor My grandma: no Caesar: and you child

[@ajax1475]

Gods*

[@Venusc0res]

I was born on the 15th when he died. So yeah I'm kinda a big deal

[@jefffriedberg]

What’s with the hands ???????????????????????????????????????

[@johnpanos2332]

the assassination of julius caesar by michael partenti

[@tristanroderic]

It does not mention the 2 million celts he killed..he was worse than Hitler..he was ambitious and wanted to be a dictator..you should do a video on that topic..How he enslaved the leader of the Celts and dragged him and killed him in Rome..it was all about the Gold and Power..Nothing has changed in the world..

[@marcobelli6856]

AVE CAESAR

[@Montes88r]

He died at age 55

[@ccSkydog]

Montes88r he's alive and well.... like Elvis. Hoffa and Morrison

[@PoundToundHound]

Then is he very, VERY old if he's still alive LMAO

[@1ponceisrael]

I've thoroughly enjoyed your video just one note: your excessive hand gestures do distract from what you are saying at times. Otherwise, awesome.

[@agnieszkakozlowska1404]

😒😓🤔👍👌🤗

[@baroqueguitarist5673]

E Tu Brute is from Shakespeare not real life as I suspect alot of parts of his story are. About visions of death etc.. That's a romantized version and BS. Would have preferred as close to real life your and not the "mythology" story tour. Still great to see the sites

[@michaelgibson4705]

Beware the hides of March and don’t take shower with June or April either .Artie Johnson Rowan and martins laugh in

[@hannahlarocco7467]

It’s June now

[@christhorton6512]

I know to talk with your hands is an Italian thing -- and this guy is obviously not a native Italian -- but boy those hands going up and down up and down up and down up and down are sure distracting.

[@e-cuauhtemoc]

Chris Thorton It's not solely an Italian thing. I do it too, but I'm more aware of it now and do it less.

[@hannahlarocco7467]

I want you to give me your ears

[@elduderino7631]

Un criminale di guerra

[@hedgeowlinvest7902]

All of these nonsense because they didn’t kill Antonio