BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar

    (By Peter Stothard)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 24 MB (24,083 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 626 times
    Last checked 11 Hour ago!
    Author Peter Stothard
    “Book Descriptions: Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story.

    The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known: Cassius Parmensis was a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying Republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of the highest political principles and lowest personal piques. For fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters but has been barely a historical foot note--until now.

    The Last Assassin dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge, and survival.

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World

    ★★★★★

    Honor Cargill-Martin

    Book 1

    Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

    ★★★★★

    Tom Holland

    Book 1

    The Four Just Men

    ★★★★★

    Edgar Wallace

    Book 1

    Dictator (Cicero, #3)

    ★★★★★

    Robert Harris

    Book 1

    A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

    ★★★★★

    Toby Wilkinson

    Book 1

    Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

    ★★★★★

    Anthony Everitt

    Book 1

    Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

    ★★★★★

    Tom Holland

    Book 1

    The Sacrilege (SPQR, #3)

    ★★★★★

    John Maddox Roberts

    Book 1

    The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

    ★★★★★

    Barry S. Strauss

    Book 1

    Duft - söfnuður fallega fólksins

    ★★★★★

    Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir

    Book 1

    The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

    ★★★★★

    Dan Jones

    Book 1

    Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)

    ★★★★★

    Dennis Lehane

    Book 1

    Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

    ★★★★★

    Tom Holland

    Book 1

    Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

    ★★★★★

    Peter Sarris