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Who Was Responsible For Julius Caesar's Downfall

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On March 15, 44 BC, a group of senators assassinated Julius Caesar. A mix of political, personal, and ideological reasons motivated his murder. Numerous primary accounts of the Ides of March illustrate Caesar’s behaviour as easily avoidable and a prime instigator for his assassination. However, since senators who voted for Caesar’s honours simultaneously despised Caesar’s authority and his grateful reception of the decrees, it seems that regardless of Caesar’s behaviour, his assassination was inevitable. Due to the changing political climate, Caesar’s defeat of Pompey, the senator’s decisions to bequeath many honours upon Caesar, and the negative reactions to Caesar’s reception or rejection of titles such as ‘king,’ Caesar’s assassination …show more content…

As aforementioned, those who supported Pompey were upset from the outset as well as Caesar’s friends for the respectful treatment of their enemies. Two of the main conspirators, Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius, had both supported Pompey (App. Bell. Civ. 4.111). Brutus was a descendant of a line who overthrew kings (Nicolaus Dam. 19. 61) and many, including Cassius, viewed it as Brutus’ ancestral duty to help usurp Caesar. This expectation of Brutus, the initial tension from Pompey’s defeat, and the symbolism of Caesar’s death in front of Pompey’s statue (Nicolaus Dam. 23. 90) implies that Pompey’s defeat played a great role in Caesar’s subsequent assassination. Pompey had initially opposed Caesar’s due to his acquisition of power; Pompey’s death likely reinforced the same sentiments in his initial followers as well as Caesar’s friends in the senate due to their own desire for power and frustration with Caesar lording over …show more content…

22. 78). Regardless of the suggested reasons for him sitting down during this, all the nobles were immensely insulted (Dio 44. 8; Suet. Div. Jul. 78). They assumed he was prideful by receiving them sitting down, but if he stood up and received the honours with glee, they would likely place the same charge against him. Thus, the conspirators created situations in which regardless of what Caesar did, there was a negative way to frame him. In this way, Caesar’s murder became

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