Julius Caesar's Assassination Conspiracy

Although Caesar's assassination on March 15, 44 BC is well known, it is not common knowledge of how much planning and conspiracy was behind it. The first event that influenced the assassination happened 465 years earlier, in 509 BC. Lucius Junius Brutus, one of the first consuls, and the ancestor of Marcus Junius Brutus, defeated the overly powerful king/dictator Lucius Tarquinius Superbus in 509 BC, and made the citizens of Rome vow to never let an individual man have so much power again. This was the leading cause of Rome becoming a republic, and was remembered deeply by Lucius’ ancestors as an act of rebellion against dictatorship.

465 years later, in 44 BC, Marcus Junius Brutus started to see his dear comrade and friend, that had been like a father to him, Julius Caesar, becoming very powerful very quickly. Julius was gaining power and popularity at an extreme rate, and Marcus Brutus worried, alike

There were 60 Liberators surrounding Caesar at a senate meeting held before he was to depart on his next military campaign. They were all concealing daggers in their togas, and brought them out at the end of the meeting, then stabbing Caesar to death. At first Caesar fought, and probably would have lived, but once he saw Brutus, he said “et tu, Brute?” and gave up. “Et tu, Brute?” translates to “and you, Brutus?”, and implies that when Caesar realized that his close friend had become a traitor to him, he gave up.

Julius Caesar was so popular, among his enemies and allies, that once he was dead, there was extreme panic. At Caesar's funeral, Mark Antony, Caesar's friend and co-consul, delivered a passionate speech about Caesar. This inspired rage and frenzy among the crowd, and the Liberators were forced out of Rome. Because of the powerful and vacant position Caesar left behind, several civil wars were fought, in which Marcus Junius Brutus took his own