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Marcus Brutus was one of the assassins who killed Julius Caesar and one of his most trusted friends. This will lead him to have a good reputation and trust in his supporters to get involved in the assassination of Julius. After Antony and Octavian heard the assassination of Julius, Rome went into a Civil War, and after Brutus´s army was swiftly defeated, he killed himself, and his troops surrendered.

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Julius Caesar was assassinated by about 40 Roman senators on the "ides of March" (March 15) 44 BCE. Caesar's death resulted in a long series of civil wars that ended in the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire.

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Brutus's wife was conspired to be involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar.

When Brutus was planning out how to assassinate Julius, Portia was invested because he wouldn't tell her his plan, so to show her loyalty to him, she stabbed herself in the thigh so he could trust her.

After Portia heard that Brutus died in the battle of Phillippi, thinking that he was dead, she grew depressed, and knowing that Antony and Octavian would rise to power, she killed herself by swallowing hot coals.

She died in 42 B.C.

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Julius Caesar was called the tragedy of Rome because the main character is involved in a struggle that ends in disaster. Brutus is the tragic hero in this tragedy because he struggles between killing Caesar or not and later whether he did the right thing or not. This leads up to his death. Caesar is still relevant in modern society due to his tremendous influence on culture, language, military and political tactics, the invention of a current calendar, and his iconic representation of the Roman Empire.

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Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar.

After being adopted by his uncle, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, which was his legal name.

Some saw Brutus as a traitor to Caesar, his friend, and ruler. Others considered Brutus a patriot who helped bring down a tyrant in the hope of preserving the Roman Republic.

Brutus and Cassius had to fight Caesar’s supporters, led by Mark Antony and Octavian. Antony defeated the forces of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi in Greece in 42 B.C., leading Brutus to commit suicide.

After the Battle of Pharsalus, he surrendered himself to the opposing army. Caesar forgave him and set him free.

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The Ides of March sent the Roman Republic into a crisis that ultimately led to its abolition and the emergence of the Imperial System.

Antony and Octavian soon turned against each other, and in 27 B.C. the Roman Republic was lost forever with the ascendance of Octavian as Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome.