William Shakespeare · 1599 · mediterranean

After Brutus and the conspirators assassinate Caesar in Rome and Mark Antony turns the mob against them, the republican cause flees east; Brutus and Cassius gather their armies at Sardis and march to Philippi, where they are defeated and fall on their own swords.

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   Rome

   The heart of the Republic, where the conspirators cut Caesar down in the Senate and Antony's funeral oration turns the mob against them, driving Brutus and Cassius into the east.

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   Sardis

   The camp in Asia Minor where Brutus and Cassius, raising armies against Antony and Octavius, quarrel bitterly in the tent before marching to battle.

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   Philippi

   The plain in Macedonia where the republican armies are broken; Cassius and then Brutus die on their own swords, and the cause of the old Republic dies with them.