Cause of Ceasars death

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Gaius Julius Caesar, a patrician and noble, became one of the most powerful men in Ancient Roman history. Caesar was a popular, and eventually became the people's hero. This wealth of power brought back images of the ruthless Roman monarchy, abolished centuries before, in 510 B.C. Caesar presided over the military, politics and religion; it allowed him to virtually control Rome. And, it was eventually Caesar's power, which led to his demise on the Ides of March in 44BC. Julius Caesar helped establish the vast Roman Empire but caused his assassination because of his power, and the control of politics in Rome.

Caesar gained power in three main areas, which dominated Roman life. He acquired power in politics and the government, in religion, and in the military. Using his power in these posts, his established a form of rule through which he could control many aspects of Roman life. On July 25th, 46B.C., Julius Caesar secured the office of Dictator for ten years. It was here, that Caesar found his power to preside over others, and where he became passionately hated by the Roman ruling class. As dictator, Caesar had secured the power of an absolute ruler. Earlier that year, he had been given Censo

"At one o'clock, Caesar announced the election of a consul to serve until 1 January - which was the next morning. So I can inform you that in Canninus' consulship, nobody had lunch. Still, nothing untoward occurred while he was consul: such was his vigilance that throughout his consulship, he did not sleep a wink!"

On The Ides of March, Caesar was brutally assassinated at the Senate house by a group of armed conspirators, former and present Senators who had broken their oath to protect him with their lives. As Plutarch said, "When the murder was newly done, there were sudden outcries of people that ran up and down the city, which indeed increase the fear and tumult." The leading conspirators, C. Cassius Longinus and his brother-in-law, Marcus Brutus, had slain him in an attempt to maintain the Republic from reverting into the hated monarchy. His death came about, not from Caesar's power, nor from his aspirations, but from the fear held by the conservatives over Caesar and his power. Caesar's real intentions was to save Rome from the "greed and injustice, [from which] all our provinces are mourning, all our free communities are complaining; even foreign kingdoms are protesting" Their efforts to save the republic from a non-existent threat eventually forced Rome into Empire, thus in retrospect, the futility of their actions, and the waste of a powerful well intentioned ruler, becomes evident.

"Yet he himself celebrated Liberty on one of his coins; and felt entitled to do so, because the programmed he had in mind was peace and security for the Empire... But what liberty meant to the ... governing class... was (their) own right to uninhibited freedom of speech. And of this he was depriving them."

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