Notorious Assassins: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Brutus

“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...