Julius Caesar
Many people over time have debated whether or not Julius Caesar was responsible for the destruction of the Roman Republic. While Julius was a complicated man, he was a favorite to many in Rome, this made it difficult for people to truly decide whether or not his actions were the cause. (Bedoyere, 260) Because of Julius Caesar’s conflict with Pompey, his emergence into dictatorship, and his assassination, I believe Julius was responsible for the destruction of the Roman Republic. When Julius was a child, he was born into a patrician Roman family. (99, Brice) The Roman Republic was already heading towards chaos, this fact became very prevalent to his life, very quickly. After he was married the first time, he joined the army to serve abroad, then after he was …show more content…
Senators were worried about what he could do to Rome if he kept ruling and also felt that he looked down on them. They believed him to be a common man, and thought that any one of them could have done the same as them. This began to make them more and more angry until they truly felt they should get revenge. These men didn’t seem to care what the cost was to get rid of Caesar.
Cassius, the main man who was very tired of being under Julius Caesar’s rule, began to plot against him, along with Brutus his brother in law. As Caesar had planned to fight in a war on the Ides of March (March 18th) although his wife had had a dream where he died, which is considered to be a bad omen. As he entered a hall the people ambushed him, and each of the senators quite literally “took a stab at him.” This surprised many who lived in Rome, and things from then on became insanely chaotic. “He was not an emperor, but no one could have predicted that the result of his death would lead eventually to the emergence of the Roman Empire.” (100,
Many people over time have debated whether or not Julius Caesar was responsible for the destruction of the Roman Republic. While Julius was a complicated man, he was a favorite to many in Rome, this made it difficult for people to truly decide whether or not his actions were the cause. (Bedoyere, 260) Because of Julius Caesar’s conflict with Pompey, his emergence into dictatorship, and his assassination, I believe Julius was responsible for the destruction of the Roman Republic. When Julius was a child, he was born into a patrician Roman family. (99, Brice) The Roman Republic was already heading towards chaos, this fact became very prevalent to his life, very quickly. After he was married the first time, he joined the army to serve abroad, then after he was …show more content…
Senators were worried about what he could do to Rome if he kept ruling and also felt that he looked down on them. They believed him to be a common man, and thought that any one of them could have done the same as them. This began to make them more and more angry until they truly felt they should get revenge. These men didn’t seem to care what the cost was to get rid of Caesar.
Cassius, the main man who was very tired of being under Julius Caesar’s rule, began to plot against him, along with Brutus his brother in law. As Caesar had planned to fight in a war on the Ides of March (March 18th) although his wife had had a dream where he died, which is considered to be a bad omen. As he entered a hall the people ambushed him, and each of the senators quite literally “took a stab at him.” This surprised many who lived in Rome, and things from then on became insanely chaotic. “He was not an emperor, but no one could have predicted that the result of his death would lead eventually to the emergence of the Roman Empire.” (100,