explain how julius ceaser is more powerful after death?
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With Caesar gone, Rome spiralled into another cycle of civil wars, which resulted in one of the most significant constitutional transformations in history. The Eternal City abandoned its trademark republican system of government and became an empire. In place of the Senate electing two consuls each year as joint heads of state, they transferred power to a largely omnipotent emperor. Ever since, people have argued which system was better.
Supporters of the Republic point to how it threw off the tyrannical king Tarquin the Proud and introduced elements of democracy, with power held by the patricians and the plebeians: SPQR, Senatus Populusque Romanus. They note how it found fame and glory in conquering almost all the Mediterranean basin: Italy, Spain, France, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, spreading its influence far beyond ancient Latium.
Advocates of the Empire, on the other hand, highlight that the Republic was in reality a hereditary oligarchy in the hands of the wealthy patrician families who ran the all-powerful Senate with no genuine voice for the plebeians, women, or slaves. They also point out that the Republic was too weak to govern effectively at home or abroad, instead relying on “bread and circuses” to keep its citizens happy amid endless civil wars. They note that Rome only truly became a great power under the might of the Empire, which lasted even longer than the Republic, and in the East until A.D. 1453.
Caesar's power ended with his death. In the political vacuum that existed after the assassination, Antony grabbed power for himself by exercising his shrewd understanding of human nature. It was his ability to understand and manipulate others that accounted for his being allowed to speak at Caesar's funeral, turn the crowd, and plunge Rome into civil war. It wasn't Caesar-in-death who influenced the crowd. After all, moments before Antony's speech, Caesar had still been dead and the crowd had embraced Brutus.
It might be argued that Caesar exercised power after death because Antony sought to avenge his murder, but if so, it was short-lived. Antony's private speech over Caesar's body, mourning him and vowing revenge, seemed heartfelt, but as soon as Antony seized power and made his alliance with Octavius and Lepidus, his mourning and high-minded motives came to a screeching halt as he consolidated power and the spoils of war for himself. He purges the Roman Senate of those he perceives as enemies, he alters Caesar's will, and he cuts Lepidus out of the financial equation. It isn't Caesar or any reverence for his memory at work here.
The appearance of Caesar's ghost is a nice touch, but it isn't Caesar or his apparition that loses the war for Brutus and Cassius. The war is lost because Brutus is a terrible military strategist, Cassius is too weak to argue with him, and Pindarus didn't have a pair of binoculars on the battlefield.
Caesar's power ended on the Ides of March with his death. After that, the scramble for power became a jump shot, and Antony grabbed the ball and kept it.
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