The Ides: Caesar’s Murder and the War for Rome Book

Atlas.

Author's Note.

Introduction'

PART ONE THE CONSPIRACY.

I January 26, 44 b.c.: Seven Weeks before the Assassination.

II February 15, 44 b.c.: The Lupercalia.

III February 22, 44 b.c.: The Caristia Reconciliation.

IV February 24, 44 b.c.: Pressuring Brutus.

V March 1, 44 b.c., The Kalends of March: Dictator for Life.

VI March 2, 44 b.c.: Recruiting Fellow Assassins.

VII March 7, 44 b.c.: A Visit from One of Caesar's Generals.

VIII March 9, 44 b.c.: Porcia's Secret.

IX March 14, 44 b.c., Afternoon: Cleopatra and the Equirria.

X March 14, 44 b.c., Evening: The Best Sort of Death.

PART TWO THE MURDER.

XI March 15, 44 b.c.: The Ides of March: Caesar Awakens.

XII March 15, 44 b.c.: The Ides of March: In the Dark before Dawn.

XIII March 15, 44 b.c., The Ides of March: Caesar Must Suffer Caesar's Fate.

XIV March 15, 44 b.c., The Ides of March: The Crime.

XV March 15, 44 b.c.: The Gathering Storm.

PART THREE AFTERMATH AND RETRIBUTION.

XVI March 16, 44 b.c.: Pleading for the Republic.

XVII March 17, 44 b.c.: The Jostle for Control.

XVIII March 18, 44 b.c.: The Liberators Gain the Advantage.

XIX March 19, 44 b.c.: Caesar's Will.

XX March 20, 44 b.c.: Caesar's Funeral.

XXI March 21, 44 b.c.: Antony Consolidates His Grip.

XXII March 24, 44 b.c.: Enter Octavius.

XXIII March 27, 44 b.c.: The Name of Caesar.

XXIV April 7, 44 b.c.: Wise Oppius.

XXV April 10, 44 b.c.: Caesar's Heir.

XXVI April 11, 44 b.c.: Octavian Meets with Antony.

XXVII April 14, 44 b.c.: The Aedile's Refusal.

XXVIII April 22, 44 b.c.: Octavian Seeks Cicero's Support.

XXIX May 11, 44 b.c.: I Don't Trust Him a Yard.

XXX May 18, 44 b.c.: Undermining Antony.

XXXI May 31, 44 b.c.: Reforming the Praetorian Cohorts.

XXXII June 2, 44 b.c.: Antony Outsmarts the Senate.

XXXIII June 7, 44 b.c.: No Plan, No Thought, No Method.

XXXIV July 13, 44 b.c.: The Last Day of Brutus's Games.

XXXV July 20, 44 b.c.: The Liberators' Manifesto.

XXXVI July 28, 44 b.c.: Cicero's Departure.

XXXVII August 16, 44 b.c.: Like Hector the Hero.

XXXVIII August 30, 44 b.c.: Cicero Returns to Rome.

XXXIX September 15, 44 b.c.: The Liberators Reach Greece.

XL September 23, 44 b.c.: Octavian's Nineteenth Birthday.

XLI September 28, 44 b.c.: The Plot to Assassinate Antony.

XLII October 9, 44 b.c.: A Dreadful State of Affairs.

XLIII October 18, 44 b.c.: Antony Joins His Legions.

XLIV November 4, 44 b.c.: Octavian Recruits an Army.

XLV November 18, 44 b.c.: The Road to War.

XLVI November 27–30, 44 b.c.: Anthony's Legions Rebel.

XLVII Early December 44 b.c.: The Rise of the Liberators.

XLVIII Second Half of December 44 b.c.: Antony Makes His Move.

XLIX January 1–4, 43 b.c.: Debating Antony's Fate.

L Late December 44 b.c.–Early January 43 b.c.: The First Assassin to Fall.

LI February 4, 43 b.c.: State of Emergency.

LII April 14–26, 43 b.c.: The Mutina Battles.

LIII May 7, 43 b.c.: Cassius Overruns Syria.

LIV May 30, 43 b.c.: Lepidus’s Betrayal.

LV August 19, 43 b.c.: Octavian Charges Caesar's Murderers.

LVI Early November 43 b.c.: The Triumvirate and the Proscription.

LVII December 7, 43 b.c.: Killing Cicero.

LVIII October 1–21, 42 b.c.: The Battles of Philippi.

LIX Judging the Assassins and the Victim.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.