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Notorious Assassins: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Brutus

Notorious Assassins: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Brutus

Paperback

Ancient RomeCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1983757152
ISBN13: 9781983757150
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 19 2018
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.12 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures of historic art depicting important people, places, and events.
*Includes historical accounts of Caesar's assassination.
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
Sic semper tyrannis! (Thus, always, to tyrants!) - attributed to Brutus
Throughout the annals of history, there have been few men as reviled as Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger. To this day, he is associated with murder, betrayal, violence and infamy, so much so that in modern English his name provides the root for the words brute and brutal, as it does in several other Romance languages. Indeed, Brutus's reputation was so infamous that when Dante composed his timeless Divine Comedy, he relegated Brutus to the very nethermost depths of Hell. In the Inferno, Dante reaches the pit of the Ninth Circle of Hell, where he finds the Fallen Angel, Lucifer, himself. Lucifer is described as a giant, three-faced demon whose three mouths are perpetually gnashing upon three sinners, widely regarded as being the three most despicable individuals in history. According to Dante, the deepest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, including Traitors against Kin, Traitors against Homeland, Traitors against Guests, and Traitors against Benefactors. The three men being devoured by Satan in Dante's Inferno are Judas, the greatest traitor of all, and the two conspirators whose knives cut down Julius Caesar: Gaius Cassius Longinus and Brutus.

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