Julius Caesar's autopsy

[Daniel Hoehr]

I watched a documentary about the assassination of Julius Caesar on TV
today. Really interesting. They mentioned that after the assassination
Caesar's body was taken to his house and an autopsy was carried out.
Apparently it was the first documented autopsy in the history of
mankind. The record still exists and the name of the physician who
performed the autopsy and wrote the report was also mentioned, yet,
alas, I didn't catch it.

Does anybody happen to know?

Also, what other sources are there that talk about Caesar's
assassination?

Thanks in advance.

DH
--
"Littera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria,
Moralis quid agas, quo tendas anagogia."

[Rolleston]

Daniel Hoehr wrote:
>I watched a documentary about the assassination of Julius Caesar on TV
>today. Really interesting. They mentioned that after the assassination
>Caesar's body was taken to his house and an autopsy was carried out.
>Apparently it was the first documented autopsy in the history of
>mankind. The record still exists and the name of the physician who
>performed the autopsy and wrote the report was also mentioned, yet,
>alas, I didn't catch it.
>
>Does anybody happen to know?

Antistius?

http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artJCPubLondon3.25.03.html

[Suetonius, Caesar, http://tinyurl.com/3e4fh]

exanimis diffugientibus cunctis aliquamdiu iacuit, donec lecticae
impositum, dependente brachio, tres seruoli domum rettulerunt.
nec in tot uulneribus, ut Antistius medicus existimabat, letale ullum
repertum est, nisi quod secundo loco in pectore acceperat.

R.

[Daniel Hoehr]

Rolleston wrote:
> Daniel Hoehr wrote:
>
>>I watched a documentary about the assassination of Julius Caesar on TV
>>today. Really interesting. They mentioned that after the assassination
>>Caesar's body was taken to his house and an autopsy was carried out.
>>Apparently it was the first documented autopsy in the history of
>>mankind. The record still exists and the name of the physician who
>>performed the autopsy and wrote the report was also mentioned, yet,
>>alas, I didn't catch it.
>>
>>Does anybody happen to know?
>
>
> Antistius?

Idem est!

> http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artJCPubLondon3.25.03.html

"[...] A team of forensic pathologists, psychiatrists and profilers,
whose analysis of the 2,000-year-old killing is revealed in a
television documentary tonight, have challenged the traditional belief
that Caesar was unaware of the plot by senators to kill him. They have
argued that, in fact, he engineered and welcomed his death. The
investigation was led by Col Luciano Garafano, commander of the
Italian Carabinieri's northern forensic investigation unit, and
assisted by a leading criminal psychologist at Harvard. Visiting the
murder scene and analysing Caesar's autopsy report, conducted by a
physician named Antistius and the first recorded autopsy in history,
Col Garafano conducted experimental simulations to assess the dynamics
of the assassination.[...]"

Damn, you're good! This is exactly the documentary I watched this
afternoon.

> [Suetonius, Caesar, http://tinyurl.com/3e4fh]
>
> exanimis diffugientibus cunctis aliquamdiu iacuit, donec lecticae
> impositum, dependente brachio, tres seruoli domum rettulerunt.
> nec in tot uulneribus, ut Antistius medicus existimabat, letale ullum
> repertum est, nisi quod secundo loco in pectore acceperat.

Thanks! Suetonius was also quoted. Reading some bits of this will be
my project this evening.

> R.

Cheers,

Daniel

oops

DH

[Ed Cryer]

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>
>
> Damn, you're good! This is exactly the documentary I watched this
> afternoon.
>

We had this on British TV about a year ago.

Ed