{"id":25778,"date":"2023-06-17T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T05:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=233988"},"modified":"2023-06-17T10:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:12:44","slug":"caesar-death-of-a-dictator-beware-the-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/caesar-death-of-a-dictator-beware-the-ides-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar: Death of a Dictator | Beware the Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> In the first episode of our series on the death of Julius Caesar, Rob Attar and Professor Barry Strauss describe the assassination of Julius Caesar \u2013 a day that would transform Rome forever. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 17 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p style=\"&quot;font-weight:\">On 15 March 44 BC, Rome\u2019s dictator strode into the Senate House of Pompey for a meeting with the city\u2019s political elite. Little did he know that this would be the final meeting of his life. In episode one of our new series on <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/roman\/julius-caesar-emperor-who-biography\/&quot;\">Julius Caesar<\/a>\u2019s rise and fall, Rob Attar is joined by Professor Barry Strauss to describe the momentous events of a day that would transform Rome forever.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-233988-4&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/HistoryExtraCaesarE1-469a732.mp3?_=4&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/HistoryExtraCaesarE1-469a732.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/HistoryExtraCaesarE1-469a732.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"> <div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p>Want to hear more? 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