15 March 44 BCE - The Murder of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was born in Subura, Rome in the year 100 BC. He was born to an aristocratic family that could trace their bloodlines back to the founding of Rome. His parents were well-off, but they weren’t rich by Roman standards. His full name was Gaius Julius Caesar.  At around the age of six, Caesar began his education. He was taught by a private tutor named Marcus Antonius Gnipho. He learned how to read and write. He also learned about Roman law and how to speak in public. These were important skills he would need as a leader of Rome. Caesar’s father died when he was sixteen years old. He became the head of the family and was responsible for his mother Aurelia and his sister Julia. At the age of seventeen he married Cornelia, the daughter of a powerful politician in Rome. Young Caesar soon found himself in the middle of a power struggle between two factions in the government. The current dictator of Rome, Sulla, was enemies with both Caesar’s uncle Marius and Caesar’s father in-law Cinna. Caesar joined the army and left Rome in order to avoid Sulla and his allies. When Sulla died, Caesar returned to Rome. He was now a military hero from his years in the army. He quickly rose up the ranks in the Roman government. He made allies with powerful men such as the general Pompey the Great and the wealthy Crassus. Caesar was an excellent speaker and the people of Rome loved him. At the age of 40 Julius Caesar was elected to consul. Consul was the highest ranking position in the Roman Republic. The consul was like a president, but there were two consuls and they only served for one year. At the end of his year as consul, Caesar became governor of the province of Gaul. As governor of Gaul, Caesar was in charge of four Roman legions. He was a very effective governor and general. He conquered all of Gaul. He gained the respect and honor from his army and soon was considered alongside Pompey as the greatest general in the Roman army.  Politics in Rome became increasingly hostile while Caesar was in Gaul. Many of the leaders were jealous of Caesar and his following. Even Pompey became jealous and soon Caesar and Pompey became rivals. Caesar had the support of the people and Pompey had the support of the aristocrats. Caesar announced that he was going to return to Rome and run for consul again. The Roman Senate replied that he must give up the command of his army first. Caesar refused and the Senate said he was a traitor. Caesar began to march his army to Rome. Caesar took control of Rome in 49 BC and spent the next 18 months fighting Pompey. He finally defeated Pompey, chasing him all the way to Egypt. When he reached Egypt, the young Pharaoh, Ptolemy VIII, had Pompey killed and presented his head to Caesar as a gift. While in Egypt he fell in love with Kleopatra VII, the Macedonian Greek queen of Egypt. He helped her to become queen and had a child named Caesarion with her. Some people in Rome felt that Caesar was too powerful. They were worried that his rule would put an end to the Roman Republic. They plotted to kill him. The leaders of the plot were Cassius and Brutus. On March 15, 44 BC Caesar entered the Senate. A number of men ran up to him and began to attack him and killed him. He was stabbed 23 times.

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Julius Caesar has been dead for 2,061 slutty, slutty, years.

the assassination of Julius Caesar  

i’VE N EVER FELT SO COMPELLED TO REBLOG THIS UN TIL THAT FUC KI GN CAPT I O N

well okay sure my old pal julius might have been a cunt according to your standards tho he wasn’t any more of one than the average roman politician, with the difference that he actually did enough also for the general population that they actually like loved him for entirely legit reasons, but other than that:

tldr: anon go back to school and stop insulting our openly problematic bae because caesar’s is everyone’s problematic bae on the italian side of tumblr and you don’t wanna pick that fight

actually if only tumblr was more like caesar, striving for real social justice *roll eyes*

To add to this:

He promulgated a law to stop magistrates in charge of the provinces’ abuses of their position of power over the people and to stop the extortions some of them did to the people (lex iula de repetundis.)

He decided to have the senate’s sessions trascripted and pubblicated so the people actually knew what their politicians were doing in the senate (Acta diurna, specifically in this case acta senatus).

Some of his political enemy tried to discredit him by saying that because of his alleged sexual conduit he was to effeminate to be in a position of power (keep telling yourself that the ancient greeks and romans were cool with homosexuality, they weren’t) and he defended himself saying that was a woman, Semiramide, to successfully reign on a major part Asia.

He was super offended that the pirates who captured him has asked what to him was a too little ransom for him.

Like, yes, he was problematic but he’s a problematic bae

right, and then he went back and killed the pirates after they released him XDDDD (our best husband for all wives and best wives for all husbands was hardcore u_u)

“The senators rehearse the tale Starring in the Coliseum Watch out Caesar”

–> anonymous asked: top 10 historical rulers?

happy ides of march

Mean Girls (2004) // The Death of Caesar (1798)

ANCIENT HISTORY MEME - 2/10 Events in the Ancient World

history meme. five assassinations: Julius Caesar, by Senators of Rome 15 MARCH 44BC. On the Ides of March, Julius Caesar entered the Senate. There he was stabbed to death by around forty senators, members of the ruling class and paragons of education and intellect in the society of Ancient Rome. Only twenty-one names of these conspirators, self-styled as “The Liberators”, survive history and nearly all of them staunchly defended the so-called sancitity of the Republic threatened, allegedly, by the quick rise to tyrannical power of Julius Caesar. However, the death of the “tyrant” had also led to the end of the Republic for which he was killed. Civil war broke out, with Mark Antony on one side and Octavian, Caesar’s legal heir, on the other. Eventually, Mark Antony fled to Egypt, where he would be defeated by Octavian. Octavian became Augustus, the first Emperor and founder of the Roman Empire, and ushered in the era of Pax Romana.

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Julius Caesar vs Jon Snow

I’d just like to point out that 50 Shades of Grey was Twilight fanfic and Twilight was inspired by Muse so when you think about it, it’s kinda because of Muse that 50 Shades was written in the first place oh

And Muse came from England which traces its roots back to the Anglo-Saxons and Romans, so really, in the end, Julius Caesar wrote 50 Shades of Grey.

someone should totally just stab caesar