Death at a Funeral - The Pax Romana Podcast 3

Everyone gathered for Julius Caesar's funeral—Caesar’s friends, as well as his enemies. It was perhaps the most awkward funeral in history. Everyone just wanted the thing to be over, so the city could move on, and the republic could heal. But that's not what happened. Instead, one man gave a fiery eulogy that turned this sham of a funeral into a raging riot. That arsonist was Mark Antony.

Primary Sources Referenced:

• Plutarch, Life of Antony 14-15
• Suetonius, Life of Caesar 88
• Cicero, Second Philippic, 18.44-46

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