Was Julius Caesar Assassination Justified

The Unjustifiable Assassination of Julius Caesar Julius Caesar is best known as the dictator of the Roman Republic and for his flamboyant assassination by members of his Senate. Caesar’s successes included winning war campaigns, expanding the Roman Republic, making laws to help lower class citizens, and improving Rome’s economy. He was a very influential person in Rome with the people and the Senate as a war hero and then as dictator perpetuo. On the Ides of March, March 15 of 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy of approximately sixty senators led by Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus. He was stabbed to death on the steps of the forum in the Senate building adjacent to Theatre of Pompey. Caesar’s death led to political strife and civil war across the Roman Empire. The assassination of Julius Caesar was mainly political because Marcus Brutus and the other assassins believed that Caesar had overruled some of their powers as senators. Many historians think that Marcus Brutus believed it was his duty to kill Caesar to protect the Roman Republic from a dictator. However, Caesar’s death led to conflict between the senators and Marc Antony, Caesar’s next in command. The result was that they did not …show more content…
Michael Parenti, an author who wrote The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome, supports this position in his book as he states that the Senators were more afraid of Caesar’s tyrannical power, rather than believing it was their duty. Parenti says that Caesar was putting in place new reforms that helped the poor and lower class citizens which threatened the aristocracy’s power. For these reasons, Caesar was murdered by some of whom he thought were his supporters. The assassination was unjustifiable because the assassins were not motivated by duty or for moral