Describe the assassination of Ceasar
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Julius Caesar was the Roman General who was sure to be elected as the King of Rome. However, there was a pro-Pompey faction, led by Caius Cassius that was against Caesar becoming the King. Cassius succeeded in winning many other like-minded personages on his side. Winning Marcus Brutus was crucial to the success of their conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. Ultimately, Cassius won Brutus over by leaving letters in different hands at Brutus’s house. Brutus got convinced that he must also oppose Caesar becoming the King. Thus Cassius, along with other conspirators, hatched a conspiracy to eliminate Caesar at Brutus’s house. The elaborate conspiracy consisted in calling Caesar at the Capitol. Metellus Cimber pleaded to Caesar to forgive his exiled brother, Publius Cimber. Caesar refused to listen to any of the conspirators, including Marcus Brutus, who was a very dear friend of Caesar’s.
The conspirators assassinated Caesar with their daggers, swords, etc, which they had secretly brought to the Capitol. Wounded Caesar stretched his hand towards Brutus for help; but when Brutus stabbed him too, he fell to the floor. He had never expected Brutus to cheat him. The conspirators stabbed him 23 times. The entire floor near Pompey’s statue was covered in Caesar’s blood. After the assassination, the conspirators shouted ‘liberty’, ‘freedom’, ‘tyranny is dead’.
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The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy done with many Roman senators who also happened to be members of the Roman branch of the Hidden Ones, a precursor group to the Assassin Brotherhood. They stabbed Caesar to death in the Curia within the Theatre of Pompey on March 15, 44 BCE.
Before his assassination, Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic, having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Senate of the Roman Republic. This declaration made several senators fear that Caesar wanted to overthrow the Senate in favor of tyranny. The conspirators were unable to restore the Roman Republic, and the ramifications of the assassination led to the Liberators' civil war and ultimately to the Principate period of the Roman Empire.
Meanwhile, the Order of the Ancients had also secretly supported Caesar. This attracted the attention of several Hidden Ones, most notably Aya, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Together, they secretly recruited the senators, at least forty of which were members of the Senates and secretly chose to eliminate Caesar for the good of the people.