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- Driven from Rome by popular outrage, Brutus and Cassius stayed in Italy until Mark Antony forced them to leave. They went to Greece and then were assigned provinces in the East by the Senate. They gradually seized all of the Roman East, including its armies and treasuries.
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After Caesar’s assassination, Brutus and Cassius were driven from Rome and gradually seized all the Roman East. In late 42 they met Mark Antony and Octavian in two battles at Philippi . Cassius killed himself after being defeated in the first.
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On a chilly day in March, beneath the marble arches of Rome’s Senate, the fate of the Republic unraveled in a single, violent act: the assassination of Julius Caesar. Among the senators who drove their daggers into Caesar, none struck deeper—emotionally or politically—than Marcus Junius Brutus.
Popular unrest forced Brutus and his brother-in-law, fellow assassin Gaius Cassius Longinus, to leave Rome in April 44. [11] . After a complex political realignment, Octavian – Caesar's adopted son – made himself consul and, with his colleague, passed a law retroactively making Brutus and the other conspirators murderers. [12] .
Sep 1, 2021 · One of the assassination’s leading planners, Marcus Junius Brutus, had prepared to deliver a speech celebrating the Roman Republic’s restoration right after Caesar’s murder. He was shocked ...
By keeping Caesar's reforms intact, they would both keep the support of the Roman people, who Brutus believed opposed Caesar the king, not Caesar the reformer, and the support of Caesar's soldiers and other supporters.
Aug 2, 2024 · The ensuing turmoil and political pressure compelled Brutus and Cassius to escape Rome. They retreated to the eastern provinces, raising an army. In 42 BCE, they engaged Octavian and Mark Antony’s forces at the Battle of Philippi .
Sep 14, 2023 · Why did Marcus Junius Brutus assassinate Caesar? Many came to believe Caesar was becoming more of a divine figure than a ruler, gradually inching away from the traditional values of the Roman Republic that they had hoped he would restore.
