Wonderful lecturer.
The conspirators all claimed to want a restored republic.
Even Brutus, Caesar's own ostensible son.
Brutus, on mother's side, long family Roman Republican heritage, etc.
Yet, while keeping as far away as he could in the East, after the parricide, he, too, had coins struck with his image, during his life.....
The Romans deified many human beings, as gods,
but it was said that only of Julius Caesar
had even they really believed it.
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