The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

Barry Strauss, professor of classics at Cornell, reconstructs the Ides of March as a political event rather than a single dramatic scene. The book covers the conspirators Shakespeare left out, the chain of decisions that led to the daggers at the Theatre of Pompey, and the immediate aftermath in which the conspirators fatally lost the propaganda war to Antony and Octavian. The standard modern account of the assassination.