{"id":26567,"date":"2024-09-06T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=26567"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:47:43","slug":"eh-tu-brutus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/09\/06\/eh-tu-brutus\/","title":{"rendered":"Eh tu? Brutus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/aw090625-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/aw090625-1.jpg\" alt=\"Eh tu? Brutus? Why did he betray Caesar?\" class=\"wp-image-26564\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Eh tu? Brutus? Why did he betray Caesar?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Caesar&#8217;s murder happened in the immediate aftermath of a civil war and sparked another generation of civil wars, so the actual whys are debated. But in general Romans hated tyrants, and one of Brutus&#8217;s ancestors had murdered the last of the Roman kings. If you want to get into the details I recommend this chapter in the Blackwell Companion to Juluis Caesar (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bcl-caesar-assassination\">bit.ly\/bcl-caesar-assassination<\/a>), which will point you to various interpretations and the ancient source material. (p.s. The line from Shakespeare&#8217;s Julius Caesar is &#8220;Et tu, Brute?&#8221; (&#8220;even you, Brutus?&#8221;). Plutarch has him say &#8220;kai su, o techne?&#8221; (&#8220;even you, my son?&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caesar&#8217;s murder happened in the immediate aftermath of a civil war and sparked another generation of civil wars, so the actual whys are debated. But in general Romans hated tyrants, and one of Brutus&#8217;s ancestors had murdered the last of the Roman kings. If you want to get into the details I recommend this chapter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/09\/06\/eh-tu-brutus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eh tu? Brutus?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26568,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions\/26568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}