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"Caesar was the hero trying to fix a dysfunctional Republic and help the common people, and Brutus was the oligarchic villain who murdered him." — Was this inversional take on the modern despotic Caesar/republican martyr Brutus ever popular?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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