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Reviewed on November 1, 2017 | social sciences
The assassination of Julius Caesar involved many conspirators, but for one—Marcus Junius Brutus—involvement in the act meant turning into a divisive figure: a traitor eternally chewed by Satan in Dante's Inferno, the complex "noblest Roman" in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and a topic of endless debate among historians. Tempest's (Cicero) study of Brutus thankfully eschews questions of morality rega...Log In or Sign Up to Read More