[REDIFFUSION] 62. L'assassinat de Jules César

Quand la IIIe république est proclamée en 1870, elle accumule les obstacles et les difficultés. La France est en guerre contre la Prusse et les républicains qui viennent d’arriver au pouvoir sont en fait très minoritaires. Et pourtant, trente ans plus tard, au tournant du siècle, ...  Show more

Comment le monde a-t-il pu basculer dans l'horreur en seulement neuf ans ? Des plaines de Mandchourie aux salons dorés de Munich, les années 1930 ne furent pas seulement celles de la Grande Dépression.Mais aussi celles d'une "marche à la guerre" que personne n'a su — ou voulu — a ...  Show more

The Ides of March, 44 BC. Ancient Rome’s most powerful dictator, Julius Caesar, is running late to a senate meeting. When he arrives, senators surround him and stab him 23 times. The assassination of Caesar has been told and re-told for centuries, but the facts are wilder than th ...  Show more

March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of disaffected senators.

In this episode, Tristan (with a little help from ...

On the Ides of March, 44 BC, the most famous Roman in history was murdered. Julius Caesar’s killers hoped to save the Republic, but in the end they destroyed it. In the six episodes of Caesar: Death of a Dictator, Rob Attar is joined by a group of expert historians to revisit the ...  Show more

The legacies of the Ides of March stretch from that very afternoon on March 14th 44BC to the modern day. From Roman times to the Medieval period, from Dante to Shakespeare, and from Brutus to the other infamous assassin he inspired in John Wilkes Booth, the echoes of Julius Ca ...