Editing Gaius Cassius Longinus (section)

==Cultural depictions==
In [[Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' (Canto XXXIV), Cassius is one of three people deemed [[sin]]ful enough to be chewed in one of the three mouths of [[Satan]], in the very centre of [[Hell]], for all eternity, as a punishment for killing [[Julius Caesar]]. The other two are [[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brutus]], his fellow conspirator, and [[Judas Iscariot]], the [[Bible|Biblical]] betrayer of [[Jesus]]. It is unknown why the third ringleader of the conspiracy to kill Caesar, [[Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus|Decimus Brutus]], was not also shown this deep in Hell.

Cassius also plays a major role in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' (I. ii. 190–195) as the leader of the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. Caesar distrusts him, and states, "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." In one of the final scenes of the play, Cassius mentions to one of his subordinates that the day, October 3, is his birthday, and dies shortly afterwards.