Julius Caesar's bloody assassination on March 15, 44 B.C., forever marked March 15, or the Ides of March, as a day of infamy. It has fascinated scholars and writers ever since. For ancient Romans ...

Famous ancient Stoic Porcia Cato was a woman of firm political convictions. She helped her husband Brutus see the plot to the very end. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Portia, shown here in an ...

Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ... Narrator: Rumors begin to circulate that Caesar may have had a hand in the plot.