Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Introduction

• The month of July is named after Julius Caesar, and it is said that Julius Caesar was the first to.He was born with a cesarean section in history, and that is why a cesarean section was generally characterized as he was born in the year 100 BC, but This is generally unconfirmed information.

• We go back to the year 100 BC The Roman Empire was governed by something like the People's Assembly we have called a Council Of Nobles.

• Not all of the council, but a minority of them called themselves the Nobility Class.

Julius And Sulla

• Julius Caesar's family was against this regime and they formed a party like the opposition party.

• Later, Caesar was married to  Sulla's daughter, the ruler of Rome, so " Sulla " decided that Anyone who belongs to this opposition party and is married to someone from their own party.

• He must divorce her, but Caesar refused to divorce the daughter of Sulla.

• So Sulla ordered to imprisoned him, but his family had acquaintances who Intercede and get him out of prison.

• After that, he joined the Romanian army and became a division commander in the army, and he was distinguished by order, courage and valor.

Triple Alliance

• After that, he and (Pompey the Great) and (Marcus Crassus) formed an alliance was called the Triple Alliance, and they overthrow Sulla and the nobility.

• Caesar went and got busy with the army after the matter was settled for him and for the Triple Alliance in Rome, He fought many wars and won all of them, the most important of which was the Gallic War.

• After a while, Pompeius coveted the rule of Rome and managed to kill Crassus, becoming the sole ruler of Rome but greatly underestimating Julius.

• At the height of Julius’s involvement in the Gallic War, Pompey decided to isolate Julius Caesar and ordered him to return to Rome immediately.

• Julius Caesar initially refused, but after long consideration, he actually went to Rome, but he went to Pompey with the entire army under his command to expel Pompey from Rome.

• Pompey also had a strong army, so the two armies clashed and the civil war between Pompey and Julius remained from 49 BC to 45 BC.

Julius Becomes Caesar

• In the end, the war ended with Julius Caesar's victory in the Battle of Munda in 45 BC. After 4 years of war, Julius Caesar took over the rule and began to repair the devastation caused by the war in Rome. He began to rebuild the country and improve the lives of people who were on the verge of destruction.

• Among the most important assistants to Julius Caesar was his friend in the battlefields, Cassius, and Brutus, who was raised by Julius Caesar and considered him his son.

• After Julius Caesar managed to rule Rome, he declared the dictatorial system, abolished the republic, declared the Roman Empire, and appointed himself as a permanent ruler of the empire.

Betrayal of a Friend

• The politics and methods that Julius Caesar followed in managing the country were the main reason that pushed some of those called "nobles" to feel dissatisfied.

• They began to yearn to regain their old sovereignty, especially since Julius Caesar's dictatorial policy was characterized by a lot of violence and oppression, He did not allow opposition or expression of any opinion different from what he sees, which gave his opponents and critics the argument in planning to get rid of him forever.

• The basis of the dispute between the republicans of the nobles and Julius Caesar was the latter's method of managing the system of government in Rome, The republicans were seeking to restore the democratic republic system and what accompanies it from granting rights and freedoms to the Roman people.

• In other words, they were demanding the necessity of applying the rules of constitutional freedom to the entire Roman people, while Julius Caesar was completely contrary to this opinion, He sees that the Roman Republic is a democracy only theoretically, and it is very difficult to apply that democracy in reality.

• Cassius became very angry with the actions of Julius Caesar and the dictatorial system by which he ruled Rome. Cassius was very skilled at persuading people and had a great ability to gain the trust of those around him.

• After having had enough of Julius Caesar's actions, Cassius decided to convince the ruling council to kill Julius Caesar, He even managed to convince Brutus that Caesar had become very arrogant, even with the rulers of neighboring countries, and that this posed a great danger to Rome, And it is necessary that Julius Caesar must be killed because it was in the best interest of Rome.

• Julius Caesar's wife woke up on the morning of March 15th 44 BC in terror because she saw Julius Caesar in her dream, covered in blood. Julius Caesar did not care about what his wife saw in her dream.

• As for the conspirator Brutus, he went to talk to one of Caesar's leaders, Antony, who was loyal to Julius Caesar, to prevent him from attending the meeting with Julius Caesar.

• When the conspirators met in the Senate to look at the state of the empire with Julius Caesar, before Caesar sat on his chair, they all pounced on him, led by Brutus, and stabbed him until they killed him. Before his death, Julius Caesar said his famous sentence "Even You, Brutus?" Brutus, crying, said "Forgive me, my lord, but this is for Rome to live." Julius Caesar said, "Let Rome live, and let Julius Caesar die."

Revenge for Julius Caesar

• With the tragic end that Julius Caesar witnessed, and with all the work and efforts he made in building the Roman state, which was sometimes criticized and hated by some, he remained among the most famous figures in history. Not only that, but the title (Caesar) became one of the titles that are given to many emperors and rulers who came after him.

• Julius Caesar's aides were later able to avenge his murder, and this is what we will talk about in another article.

• Julius Caesar's famous saying "even you, Brutus" as written by Shakespeare has become one of the most famous sentences in history that indicates the betrayal of a friend, Historians did not agree on this, but they said that Brutus was not this close to Julius Caesar.

• Despite this, most historians believe that Brutus and Cassius are the masterminds behind the conspiracy, and thus they followed in the footsteps of the philosopher Plutarch, who wrote about the assassination 150 years after it happened, and Shakespeare, who derived most of his story from Plutarch.

• But many sources since then include details about Caesar's assassination indicating that Decimus is the leader of this conspiracy not Brutus and Cassius.

• It wasn't long before Julius Caesar's agents avenged him, namely Gaius Octavius Thurinus, Marcus Lepidus, and Mark Antony. 

• However, there are other disputes and conflicts awaiting Gaius Octavius Thurinus, Marcus Lepidus, and Mark Antony, and another kingdom is on the way after the events of the assassination of Julius Caesar and the naval battle of Actium.

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