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The hosts compared Lincoln to Julius Caesar, noting that Booth saw himself as a modern Brutus and likening the political climate to the ancient rivalry. They mentioned the analogy in the context of Southern propaganda.
There is and this will please that bloke on the reddit it's Julius Caesar. Brilliant.
— Episode: 590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincol...
Episode: 590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death a...
The hosts compared Lincoln to Julius Caesar, noting that Booth saw himself as a modern Brutus and likening the political climate to the ancient rivalry. They mentioned the analogy in the context of Southern propaganda.
There is and this will please that bloke on the reddit it's Julius Caesar. Brilliant.
Caesar although surely much more so at a time when all the opinion formers politicians and what not have had such a classical education ... the southern newspapers often use this parallel so you asked are southerners calling for Lincoln's assassination the Richmond dispatch said ... assassination in the abstract is a horrid crime but to slay a tyrant is no more assassination than war is murder who speaks of Brutus as an assassin ...
