Julious Caesar

Caesar's ambition was to become king, but in a crowd-pleasing fashion. Meaning he did not want to leap right in and look too anxious, that is why he refused the crown three times from Marc Antony. He was going about it in a roundabout way. The Romans had set up a republic government and the last king had been overthrown 450 years ago, but this did not stop Caesar's ambition in becoming king of the "free Romans". This was just unthinkable.

Caesar did have a suspicion of some of the Senators. He was not suspicious of his life, but suspicious Cassius and Brutus plotting a revolution. Caesar said, "I'm not much afraid of these fat, long-haired people. It's the other type I'm more frightened of, the pale thin ones " This meaning the thin people (Cassius and Brutus) are "hungry" to learn

Caesar did have enemies that wanted him dead just for spite. Brutus knew that the only way to protect the Romans was to kill Caesar. Cassius was just jealous and hated Caesar and wanted him dead. The conspirators also wanted to kill Caesar for their own selfish reasons of not liking him. Brutus was the only conspirator with true and unselfish reason for have Caesar killed.

So to summerise why Julius Ceasar was killed it was a group of conspirators that had been formed against Caesar because they felt that he had too much power and that if he became the king of Rome he would become corrupt and use his powers to create a bad society. The senate resented his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey’s new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey’s statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and Cato. After a provocative funeral oration by Mark Antony, Caesar’s body was burned by the mob in the forum. When at the games in his hon

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