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Brutus: Liberator of Rome or Traitor to Caesar?

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Marcus Junius Brutus is a name that has come down through history as being synonymous with unexpected betrayal. Dante- in his Divine Comedy portrays Brutus as being in the lowest pit of the underworld. He was however a far more complex character, and even William Shakespeare, in his play The Death of Julius Caesar, portrays him as a man torn by his duty to his country and his duty to his friend and benefactor - Caesar. Brutus' monologues and conversations are by far the longest of all the characters - which suggests that the play was really about Brutus, not Caesar. So Brutus is a figure of history that has been twisted and manipulated by emperors and kings to justify their own power, and also by democratic republics as a martyr to the ideals of freedom. But the real story of Brutus is more complex, more human and deserving of a deeper exploration.
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02:28 Background
10:52 Key Players / 1st Triumvirate
41:52 Marc Antony's "Funeral Speech" (Shakespeare)
47:36 Decimus Junius Brutus
55:10 Aftermath
1:00:00 Second Triumvirate
1:03:00 End of the Republic
1:05:18 Brutus Speech at Caesar's funeral (Shakespeare)
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@heroesandlegends 2 года назад

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@steveclapper5424 Год назад

If Caesar hadn't been such A nice guy none of that would have happened. When his successors took power the destroyed anyone who had opposed them. Caesar tried to make nice and forgive his opponents and they killed him.

@markmaki4460 Год назад

The significance of what Booth supposedly shouted after he shot Lincoln has too often been overstated. "Sic semper tyrannis" was and still is simply the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

@marcobelli6856 Год назад

Shame in Virginia long live Caesar. The senate were the tyrants

@joeydelrio 2 года назад

julius caesar had to go, he was helping the common people and that will never be tolerated.

@heroesandlegends 2 года назад

Interesting point! I suppose the next question is whether Brutus was one of the jealous elites; or duped into doing the senate's bidding, or whether he really thought that the Republic was the lesser of two evils?

@joeydelrio Год назад

@@heroesandlegends its hard to not be a bit bias, he was a senator which meant he was wealthy and benefited from his death, you had to be corrupt just to get into the biz of politics, they may have been friends, grown up together, both came from wealthy families, but caesar genuinely wanted to give back to the common people and i dont think brutus shared that idea. i dont believe there would have been any middle ground between them.

@pilipala4003 Год назад

This doc was excellent, really in depth. I read a lot of primary sources and ofc historians and I still learnt new things so thank you so much, I love Shakespeare as well and I think including the various clips of the speeches was a brilliant touch, not a lot of docs like to include Shakespeare but I think it really adds depth to the emotion. Thank you again

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Thanks for those generous words! Glad you enjoyed it!

@colleenlally-ross7105 2 года назад

Thank you for this informative documentary! I've always been fascinated by ancient Rome and quickly devour it thinking there isn't anything new for me to learn...so glad I stumbled upon your channel to prove me wrong.

@heroesandlegends 2 года назад

Thanks for those kind words- like the other videos I make, the research leads you down some fascinating rabbit holes, but hopefully I manage to convey some of the psychology and humanity that often lies obscured behind the personas and egos we think we know. Thanks so much for supporting my channel!

@jumbo4billion 2 года назад

Really appreciate the timeline at the top of screen. Sometimes there's so much new information it's hard to remember the dates mentioned

@stephencooley5523 2 года назад

This was truly amazing. It sounds to me that Brutus (the one who's mother was having affair with Caesar) was just being used by the other Brutus and senators who were losing power.

@heroesandlegends 2 года назад

I'm sure there was a degree of that, but Brutus himself didn't live in a vacuum. He was an animal of the senate and he had some savvy mentors. Politics has always been a brutal sport! Thanks for watching, and sharing your thoughts!

@chrlmmartin7776 Год назад

Bro, u gotta do more history bios like this. Really good scholarship and even better presentation. Damn good video as good as ur napoleon one

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Thanks for the encouragement! I'll do my best!

@stopato5772 2 года назад

THank you for this Docu. Very enyobale and informative.

@heroesandlegends 2 года назад

Thanks so much for taking the time to watch. The idea came to me after watching Shakespeare's play in the theatre. I couldn't help thinking the entire play was about Brutus, not Caesar. The more I researched, the more complex the story became. What did you conclude? Was he a hero or a villain? It would be interesting to see what people think!

@keahilumho8914 Год назад

Wow just wow really really good programming keep up the good work happy new sub here God bless all the works of your hands

@lasentinal Год назад

The use of the terms "BC" and "AD", I find more legitimate than the phonetically similar "BCE" and "CE". We can take BC to now stand for Backwards Chronology and AD to stand for Advancing Dates, which explains the terms, perfectly. This is like the number line, except that there was no year zero.

@rhetoric5173 Год назад

BC, CE

@Ken_Scaletta 8 месяцев назад

It's not my Messiah and not my lord. It;s also historically wrong vis-a-vis Jesus since Jesus could not have been born later than 4 BCE. Why s it so important for Christians to force Jews to call Jesus the Messiah?

@redplanet7163 Год назад

Excellently produced and narrated. I'm particularly interested in the period just before the end of the Republic because I don't know as much about it as other periods. This fills in many gaps. Oh, I think the pronunciation of "stoic" is exactly as spelt (sto-ic) - not stoyic. If I'm not mistaken, it is generally associated with Marcus Aurelius a century or so after this who was a practitioner of stoicism.

@brandondherin2558 Год назад

Maybe it’s from his accent?

@aurelnegrea7617 2 года назад

It’s unreal. How much death. Continua in our days. Death death never ending

@podcansaveus2627 Год назад

Dude you make my favorite videos on RU-vid I have a lot of people that I like to follow and watch from time to time but I have been binge watching these for the last three days I don't think I've watched almost anything else. Yes that's what my weekend consisted of LOL I should be sleeping right now but instead I'm watching this... I'll be tired tomorrow morning but I'll know so much more 😂

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Glad you're getting value! Thanks so much for your support!

@billthebold 2 года назад

Very good.

@DF-ss5ep 8 месяцев назад

I watched this twice. Once as "the story of Brutus", then as "a reflection on Brutus". Just writting to say I get what you've done with this. I'm not a fan of Caesar, nor Lincoln for that matter, but it remains a riddle to me too, though I guess that's part of the point. It is that moral ambiguity that allowed the episode to serve as a prototype in the western civilization.

@heroesandlegends 8 месяцев назад

I'm glad it gave you some food for thought. That's what this channel is all about. Thanks for sharing yours.

@loupiscanis9449 2 года назад

Thank you 🐺

@rhetoric5173 Год назад

You ought to make an excerpt of the two brutii that changes the whole story!

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Got a bunch of excerpts in the pipeline. Stay tuned!

@palawanjungledays3099 4 месяца назад

Grazie Mille

@con.bel666 5 месяцев назад

This is a hell good video

@heroesandlegends 5 месяцев назад

Thanks mate!

@Vercingetorix.Fantasia Год назад

Brutus misread his families fate . His ancestor killed a Tyrant. Yes. But he also instituted a new form of government as a result . Brutus believed his fate was to kill the Tyrant, when all along it was to institute a new government .

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Thanks for sharing your perspective. What do you think about Shakespeare's portrayal of him?

@Vercingetorix.Fantasia Год назад

@Heroes and Legends documentary channel I love the speeches, especially Mark Antonys speeches at Caesars funeral . Shakespeare was writing drama, so we must expect his portrayal of Brutus, and all characters to be exaggerated.

@heroesandlegends Год назад

True- but I was more thinking about the way he seemed to treat Brutus with sensitivity, when up until that time, Brutus was reviled as evil. His play Julius Caesar has a far greater emphasis and dialogue concerning Brutus than it actually does with Caesar himself. Like so many of Shakespeare's characters, his portrayal of Brutus showed the complex nature of good vs evil.

@daddymcsnacks_561 Год назад

As a dumb American I do prefer the Latin original nature of text. Only because the more I see in Latin the more I see how things have changed historically. Or more specifically the slight nuance of the meaning of words. Where as in our times words have been butchered and changed from their root meaning. I just wish I could walk among them to see what it was like in those time's!

@etiennenobel5028 Год назад

great stuff

@StephenGoodfellow Год назад

The two Brutus's. I never knew! Thanks so much! Excellent presentation.

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@aurelnegrea7617 2 года назад

And yes there where no cell ph available

@mobtek Год назад

Latin puritan reporting in 🤣Currently learning classical latin and learning to write in latin makes me a stickler but I'll bear with it - AB IRATO VIR ;)

@itaylorm 2 года назад

Riveting and very pertinent to today

@MarcusAgrippa390 10 месяцев назад

Cesar was a nice guy... Unless you pissed him off or otherwise got in the way of his objectives.

@newnormal1841 Год назад

. 9:48 Same system Different managers 🤺💐

@clutchpowers9509 Год назад

Wait till Bigguss Dickuss here's about this.!

@heroesandlegends Год назад

Now there's a hero worth writing about!

@homerfj1100 Год назад

BC AD...agree. I don't even think about what they represent.

@davemojarra4734 2 года назад

Antonius was loyal to Antonius.

Год назад

Long live Brutus.

@noelthorley3248 2 года назад

Now how are you going to get those pigeons back?

@sheikowi Год назад

Objective and informing narrative. Perhaps too much distraction or distortion by the unusual use of Hollywood images. Ultimately everything was slain by an old hussey.

@robertgiles9124 6 месяцев назад

Those fools killed a great man, and Rome suffered.

@heroesandlegends 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing your views!

@ace6285 Год назад

Just have to make a correction. Near the beginning the narrator claims the modern Democrats in US represent the populace. Once this was the case but currently it is not so at all. The Democrat Party has been taken over by another interest....not the populace. May revert in the future, but as of 2022, the Republicans are filling this role.

@DF-ss5ep Год назад

I agree with you, although I would get rid of the distinction between "for the people", and "for the elites". "Left vs right", for all it's faults, it's still a better concept. There isn't really any "for the people", there are interests, like rural vs urban, central vs local government, private vs public. With such large armies, one would expect soldiers to make a powerful interest group in themselves, much like today's Military Industrial Complex, or, more loosely, the "armies" of central government employees.

@podcansaveus2627 Год назад

😂👌🏽

@bararawalczakhyyyw2rbp-lol 2 года назад

Brutus is evil

@anandjhave Год назад

Where is Cleopatra in all this????

@adythedog Год назад

The association with populism is anachronistic and stupid. As well as the patricians - rich vs plebeians - poor. Many plebeians were rich by any standards. Many famous characters were plebeians who entered the ranks of the aristocracy through marriage, Marcus Antonius and Agrippa would be just two examples. I don't think that Caesar was ever poor in the true sense of the word. But any financial difficulties he had show that the status of patrician was not due to wealth, but to ancestors. The whole story of Brutus shows this. And if we still started from the origins of the republic, we should at least remember the statement of the patricians, not without a grain of truth that they were the descendants of the tribes that had founded Rome, while the plebeians were the descendants of foreigners who settled in the city over time. As for wealth, the patricians were not rich, but rotten rich, extraordinarily rich, much richer than the rich plebeians.

@aurelnegrea7617 2 года назад

Use to have a dog named brutus. Ha

@davemojarra4734 2 года назад

Is his first name Marcus?

@darvinlobaton4825 2 года назад

So when are you going to make a video about the life of Simon Bolivar , and instead of the highly propagandist video of San Martin I hope you can be objective and highlight Bolivar’s achievements and make it a objective video