Long before the day he was assassinated, Caesar had been warned by a soothsayer named Spurinna that the Ides of March (March 15 on the Roman calendar) held great danger for him.

On that day in 44 B.C. Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, troubled by the prophecy and by a nightmare in which she saw her husband murdered, urged him to cancel a scheduled meeting of the Senate and stay home instead.

Caesar had agreed to do so, until Decimus Brutus, one of the senators conspiring to murder him, convinced him to go forward with the meeting. On his way there Caesar encountered Spurinna and remarked, “Well, the Ides of March are come.” “Yes, Caesar,” Spurinna is said to have answered, “come, but not yet gone.”

Caesar, who had been declared Rome's dictator for life the previous year, entered the Senate Meeting Room in the Pompey Theater at about 11:30 a.m. and took his seat, unaware that among the hundreds of senators assembled there that morning, there were about 50 who were conspiring to murder him.

The conspirators, who called themselves “the Liberators,” believed Caesar to be a tyrant, feared his ever-increasing power, and were convinced that he was planning to declare himself King of Rome. For the sake of the Republic, they had resolved to assassinate him.

After Caesar was seated, Lucius Tillius Cimber approached him, purportedly to present a petition. When Caesar waved him away, Cimber reached out and pulled down Caesar’s toga, exposing his neck. It was a prearranged signal to attack.

The conspirators suddenly rushed in, drawing daggers from beneath their togas. They pounced on Caesar, who shouted in surprise, “This is violence!” He rose and grabbed Casca, one of the men stabbing at him and cried out, “Casca you villain, what are you doing?” As the daggers of the other assassins began to find their target, those may have been his last words.

The historian Suetonius reports that as Caesar was being stabbed repeatedly, he pulled his robe over his head to shield his face and fell to the floor with a groan. By other accounts, upon seeing his friend Marcus Junius Brutus among the assassins, Caesar said, “You too, my child?” (Immortalized by Shakespeare as “Et tu, Brute?”) Either way, stabbed 23 times, Julius Caesar bled to death on the floor at the feet of his assassins, while the rest of the Senate fled in panic.

In the aftermath of the assassination, Rome was plunged into civil war. Instead of being regarded as heroes, as they had hoped and expected, the “Liberators” were vilified, particularly by the Roman lower classes, with whom Caesar had been very popular. Within two years, nearly all of them were exiled or dead. And perhaps ironically, after Caesar’s chosen heir Octavian emerged victorious in the civil wars, he was given the title “Augustus,” and he became the first Roman Emperor.

The painting is “The Death of Caesar” by Vincenzo Camuccini (1804).

....The oppressed man loves and respects only one man, his oppressor, and he has only one dream in life, which is to join the class of oppressors, in order to fulfil his own fantasies.("Pedagogy of the Oppressed"- Paulo Freire, Brazilian Author).

Racoon:

In the aftermath of the assassination, Rome was plunged into civil war. Instead of being regarded as heroes, as they had hoped and expected, the “Liberators” were vilified, particularly by the Roman lower classes, with whom Caesar had been very popular. Within two years, nearly all of them were exiled or dead

The Liberators didn't hate their country but they were just afraid of his tyranny and dictatorship and fear that he could get worse

This particular scenario reminds me of the relationship between the Nigerian politicians and their thugs

After unleashing the thugs on the people during election, the elected politicians will retrieve the weapons from the thugs

The thugs could have been regarded as the heroes if they had used the weapons to place the right leaders there just like the Roman Lower Class did but no! They remain a nobody/dead, exiled or forgotten

While the villains remain leaders till date

There is something to be learnt from this story but only the wise can relate

Racoon:
Caesar, who had been declared Rome's dictator for life the previous year, entered the Senate Meeting Room in the Pompey Theater at about 11:30 a.m. and took his seat, unaware that among the hundreds of senators assembled there that morning, there were about 50 who were conspiring to murder him.

Malroux:
It was a great story line full with many lessons for the living.

Major take away: Trust no one even your best friend.

Malroux:
Oga contribute meaningfully to the topic and not posting wittiness in every thread. It is already stale and annoying.

Edoreborn:
The movie Rome...epic..

wittywriter:




Wittyness

Racoon:
Caesar, who had been declared Rome's dictator for life the previous year, entered the Senate Meeting Room in the Pompey Theater at about 11:30 a.m. and took his seat, unaware that among the hundreds of senators assembled there that morning, there were about 50 who were conspiring to murder him.

ImadeUReadThis:

The Worst Democracy is better than the best dictator.

We owe Shakespeare a lot in re branding the wannabe dictator Julius Caeser into a Roman martyr.
According to Shakespeare, whose plays were bankrolled by the British Crown, Brutus and Cassius were not only traitors but treacherous fellows of the worst kind who assassinated Julius Caeser in cold blood.

While Shakespeare did acknowledge Brutus' motives in assassinating Caeser (for Brutus stated that Rome must remain a democratic Republic) Shakespeare failed to portray Caeser in his true colors. Caeser's ambition to transform the Republic to his personal Kingdom was doused by Shakespeare who wanted us to believe that the Roman proletarian class were the ones urging Caeser to assume maximum powers as Rome's first despotic ruler.

When Caeser crossed the Rubicon river, he did this not as a showcase of his military conquest of Gaul in a victory parade in Rome but as a final putsch towards assuming supreme powers and authority over Rome.
This is how the idiom "Crossing the Rubicon" came about which means to pass a point of no return. Julius Caesar uttered the famous phrase "alea iacta est"—the die is cast as his army marched through the shallow river - an act which was considered an insurrection and treasonable offence. Caeser's deliberate act of treason which he committed by Crossing the Rubicon was premeditated and well planned towards seizing power for himself and bringing to an end the Roman democratic tradition . Even the word "cease" owes it's origin to Julius Caeser.


Now why will Shakespeare distort history in his plays? Well, Shakespeare happened to have enjoyed a very generous annual pension from the British Crown and patronage among the English nobility during his time. There are even speculations that Shakespeare may not have authored most of his plays. Around 230 years after Shakespeare's death, doubts began to be expressed about the authorship of the works attributed to him. Proposed Yvette's candidates include Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

The Elizabethan era began the erosion of monarchial powers with mounted pressure by some members of the political class demanding the Monarchy assume ceremonial roles. It is thus, not coincidental that Shakespeare will rewrite the history of ancient Rome in an attempt to portray the Roman Senate as treacherous. Shakespeare's caricature depiction of Cassius as sickly and bent was a personification of democracy and the legislative powers of elected officials below that of the Monarchy. Hence the need to depict Cassius, a standing Senator of Rome, as a sickly angry leach!

The final outcome of Caeser's attempt at assuming full maximum powers is that Rome ceased to be a democracy, a civil war ensued and the man Caeser died and with him the glory of a democratic Republic of Rome.

Just like Shakespeare (or his nobility muse) we have today a very active propaganda machinery desperate at un-bundling the Senate and ushering in a despotic ruler.

EmperorCaesar:
Julius wasnt an Emperor


He was just a Gov/head of a Roman Province


He wanted to become an Emperor but couldnt actualize the dream

His godson/ grandcousin Augustus Caesar was the First Roman Emperor....


Its still all fair as Caesar was added to the names of all Roman Emperors just to honor Julius, Plus, Augustus live to fulfill the livelong ambition of his Granduncle and mentor

Racoon:
The simple moral lesson of this gory incident is the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely" Hence always give rise to desperate intra-institutional power tussle. Brutu's being part of the conspiracy is justifying of the saying "a man's enemy is of those of his own household."

EmperorCaesar:
The life and historical account of Augustus Caesar shamed every atheist who never believed in the existence of Jesus

Man died when Jesus was just 4 years. Somewhere around 4 B.C to 6 C.E



If u believe in the historical account of Tacitus(A first century historian who wrote first on Augustus) and yet u dont believe his account on Jesus existence, then you're just being shallow and deliberately ignorant

DomPerignon:


He wasn't a governor but a Senator and part time General or rather a war lord seeking fortune and glory for himself.

An extreme narcist and a tyrant who thought himself to be like Alexandria the Great.

Caeser was a failure and was not celebrated by Romans.

Blakjewelry:

Lol funny you, was it a question of whether he really existed or about the man and the myth.

EmperorCaesar:



Really?
Even the most succesful Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar(Closely followed by Marcus Aurelius) wasnt celebrated either

Just google "Tacitus on Augustus"

Augustus forced history to be rewritten many times to hide his flaws and negative characters so much that aside Tacitus account(He lived barely 50years after Augustus died), other accounts made him appear like a true Augustus(Divine Chosen)


Julius was a dictator, thats fine but i struggle to admit that he wasnt celebrated after his death


July was named after him
Caesar was incorporated into the names of like 10 Emperors after him, in a span that lasted over 100years yet even Julius himself wasnt an Emperor


He couldnt have been celebrated more...Not even Marcus Aurelius was so immortalized

EmperorCaesar:



I've met atheist on Quora who argued vibrantly yet so blindly that Jesus never existed in the first place

As for the Myth...I hope u dont also believe anything that was written about Buddha too

If so...then its all fair and historians are never to be trusted and if thats that case, then Its stupid for us to selectively believe some accounts while disregarding others



If u dont believe in historical accounts, then we are living in a world we dont know

WriterX:
There was a movie , an old classic movie about brutus and caesar, i can still remember the soothsayer warnings and his wife having nightmares and the murder it self which was quite brutal then. I loved it, great story till date!

Racoon:
The simple moral lesson of this gory incident is the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely" Hence always give rise to desperate intra-institutional power tussle. Brutu's being part of the conspiracy is justifying of the saying "a man's enemy is of those of his own household."