Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins

Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins

Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-01-22T16:00:00+00:00


Three separate plots to kill Caligula were now in existence. Conceived by leading men of the state, they had been in the works for many months. Two plots had been put together by senators and one of Caligula’s most senior staff members, the Palatium freedman Callistus. Another was conceived by officers of Caligula’s Praetorian Guard and German Guard. The three plots eventually melded into one, with the tribune Cassius Chaerea of the Praetorian Guard taking the lead. The plotters set down the assassination for January 21, the first day of the four-day Palatine Games in honor of the deified emperor Augustus, and made their preparations.



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