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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the murder-intercepted letters from Caesar's better-known enemies, the report (to Cleopatra) of a secret operative of the Egyptian government, a discussion with Caesar's physician, confidential messages from his wife's maid, and, above all, Caesar's private papers. Suppose, further, that these documents were arranged like the evidence in a murder trial to show who was guilty and why. How would the result compare with the accounts given by Shakespeare and Suetonius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Dossier on Julius Caesar | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...account, Brutus is a minor character. Cassius does not even appear. If they did not know about Brutus, readers might well decide that the real villain must have been Clodia Pulcher, a likely suspect if there ever was one, dissolute, clever, and already mixed up in one attempt on Caesar's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Dossier on Julius Caesar | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Caesar at Home. In Author Wilder's account, Caesar is a serious, capable executive who answers his letters promptly and fusses about the time he has to spend reading tiresome documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Dossier on Julius Caesar | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...note your reference to James Caesar Petrillo as a non-smoker [TIME, Jan. 26]. How do you account for the enclosed cut of the "Czar" lighting up a "Lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS). An Ides of March special, from the network's "Rome Bureau": the assassination of Julius Caesar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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