Finally An Honest Video On Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, the man who laid the foundation for the Roman Empire, with a name so powerful that it was adopted by every Roman Emperor and many rulers outside of Rome long after his death. Caesar was that dude, the original people's champ loved by the millions of Julius Caesar But if you somehow have this image of Caesar as an old guy, let me tell you that this dude often fought on the front lines and was once kidnapped by pirates and went more Rambo on them than Rambo ever went on anyone. And also, Caesar was a dog, I mean that man was a dog. Caesar put the play in playboy, the man slept with many of his rival senators wives and word on the Roman streets was that even men weren't safe from Caesar's appetite. Dog, he's a straight D-A-W-G. So let's do a biography on Gaius Julius Caesar whose great life ended with him being murdered by a man who may or may not have been Caesar's own son. Let's do this. Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 12th or 13th in 100 B.C.E. So long ago that back then July was actually called Kintilis and it was only due to and after Julius Caesar that the month was renamed July in his honor. Caesar was born to a father who went by the same name, Gaius Julius Caesar, I guess now we would say senior if you will and his wife Aurelia. His father was governor and his mother came from a noble family but the real big dog energy in Caesar's family tree was packed by his aunt Eulia and her husband Caesar's uncle Gaius Marius the older and the two of them squared that big dog energy in their marriage and passed it on to their son who shared his father's name and became known as Gaius Marius the younger. And Gaius Marius the younger was the man at the time. Dude was a warrior, badass, turned great commander, a real jabroni beating, pie eating, trail blazing, eyebrow raising, talking is done, you're out of your class, no sleep till Brooklyn, the rock whip show. He was a people's champ and at this point in time the people of the Roman Republic needed a champ because the Republic was failing. Note that this was not the famous Roman Empire ruled by an emperor yet, at the time it was ruled by two selected consuls and the Roman Senate. But the existing power structure in the Roman Republic favored conservative aristocrats and their interests, aka money, outweighed the interests of the common folk and outweighed the interests of the soldiers who conquered the vast lands of the Roman Republic in the first place but were now cast aside after their service was up with no pay and no lands. So the people were pissed and that anger gave rise to the Populares party, previously led by Gaius Marius the older, Caesar's uncle, but now led by Gaius Marius the younger, Caesar's cousin who was dead set on finishing a civil war his father had started against the Roman aristocrats known as the Optimates party, at the time led by a name called Lucius Cornelius Sulla. A civil war to redistribute the wealth across Rome was about to ensue. A civil war that was an epic clash that shook the Roman Republic and its traditional values to their core. Optimates versus Populares, the aristocracy versus the people, Sulla versus Gaius Marius the younger, the jabroni beating Gaius lost against Sulla and committed suicide in 82 BCE. So that was that, the Populares lost and for all the members of the Populares this defeat was pretty bad news because with Sulla being victorious he now seized full power and was dictator of Rome and the first thing Sulla announced was the purge. Seriously all members of the Populares and their supporters were now fair game, no law you could literally go American History X on them and you would even be rewarded for it. Enter 19 year old Gaius Julius Caesar. The young Caesar was a known supporter of the Populares and married to the daughter of a leading member of the Populares party, he was married to Cornelia. So Caesar was high up on the purge list with half of Rome basically ready to curb stomp him. Which is why young Caesar decided to nope the hell out of Rome and enlisted in the military Turns out the well educated and well spoken young Caesar was really good at the soldier thing and right off the bat he was a part of successful campaigns in Asia and Cilicia rose to the ranks and eventually in 80 BCE at just 20 years young a year after enrolling Caesar was sent on a special mission. His troops were locked in a battle and to tilt that stalemate in their favor the general asked Caesar to get the old forgetful king Nicomedus to send the allied fleet of ships he had promised the Romans in support. Caesar was successful in soliciting that allied fleet from the king but he spent so much time at the king's court that rumor began to spread that he also solicited a different fleet from the old king. Basically rumor had it that Caesar was the old king's lover but hey. So basically the young soldier Julius Caesar was good at handling all kinds of swords and while he was out doing all that sword handling back in Rome Sulla died in 78 BCE. The dictator was dead which meant that Rome was safe again and after three years away Julius Caesar returned to Rome that same year only to find out that while he was gone Sulla had confiscated all his inheritance which meant Caesar was broke as hell. But Caesar had one very valuable skill he trained all throughout his life. He was a gifted speaker, well educated, studied in Greek philosophies and charming as hell. He had all the tools needed to succeed in Roman politics which at the time were more of a popularity contest than an eloquence contest even more so than politics today. So young Caesar got a foot in the door and things were going okay so he decided to climb that ladder you know further his studies by traveling to Greece further his philosophy to be better at the public speaking thing. But while he was on a ship in the Aegean Sea young Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates. Cilician pirates kidnapped 25 year old Julius Caesar in 75 BCE. Of course as most pirates were these pirates were just after some booty. Yeah booty as in a rich gain or prize. And so they demanded 20 talents for Caesar's release. For reference one talent at a modest conversion rate is at least $100,000 today and these pirates demanded 20 talents that's a lot of money. I'll leave it to you in the comments to work out just how much money exactly that is but just know that at this staggering amount of a ransom money for his release Caesar said and this is really true 20 talents make it 50 I'm worth more than that. The pirates laughed at this young confident man but my man doubled down and showed that he was serious saying make it 50 talents when you get the money and release me I'll come back and kill all of you. So 50 talents it was and while they were waiting for the 50 talents for Caesars release Caesar used the time on the pirate ship to practice his rhetoric on the pirates you know he held speeches for them recited poetry threatened to kill them once he's free. Honestly as far as kidnappings go not a bad time kinda sounds like he was kidnapped by the straw hat pirates equivalent of the time like not the worst pirate crew to be stuck with. So when these fun pirates finally did get the 50 talents and Caesar was released he did not forget the good times they had together so he decided to round up his own crew of sailors get a boat set sail hit the oceans and hunted down the pirates and had all of them crucified with their throats slit. Now Caesar was a free man again and a little bit of a legend because this story of how he hunted down the pirates I mean that's epic now 2,000 years later how bothered do you think that was back then. Caesar was the man charming alright looking good looking even some say killer instinct survivor my god what's getting laid you know what I mean like come on that's the story you tell that to the bar over some drinks man you getting laid. Sure he was married but man don't forget Caesar was a dog and all he saw in Rome was a bunch of bones you know what I mean so getting into the details of his love life will blow the scope of this video but just remember that Caesar had many many many lovers because this is going to be important later. Unfortunately free legendary Caesar who hunted down the pirates was not entirely free to roam around Rome as he pleased he was too skilled of a soldier so he was recalled into the military to put down an uprising in Asia and with the crucifixion of a bunch of pirates under his belt Caesar was even more of a killer than ever before and he was such a boss on that Asia campaign that he was called to that when he returned to Rome in 72 BCE after he took care of business Caesar was appointed military tribute which means he now had the right to command his own soldiers and run politically and upon returning to Rome with all these epic stories and accomplishments under his belt blessed with a silver tongue man Caesar was a rising star in the Roman game of thrones and his career took off. But Caesar never forgot his roots remember the Populares the faction of the people formerly led by Caesar's role models the father and son duo Gaius Marius the older and the younger standing up for the common folk and the veterans you remember right just like Gaius Marius both of them Caesar was a true man of the people a military man that got down and dirty on the battlefield but could still go toe to toe and beyond with the lofty eloquence of the politicians Caesar was the man the people needed those who felt belittled by the nobility felt seen and represented by Julius Caesar and could relate to him and I don't want to go into the intricacies of the politics at the time all you need to know is that Julius Caesar was openly embracing his role as the man of the people and fought for the ideologies of the Populares which meant good old Julius quickly became an enemy of the state of the status quo but still Caesar had a post in the senate could claim military successes Caesar was building a career in politics and his wife Cornelia was pregnant with their first child and then his wife Cornelia and the baby died during childbirth a devastating blow to anyone and even the great Caesar was no exception to that he was down and out and you could argue that even though he was devastated by it this was the beginning of his greatness shortly after his wife died in 68 BCE Caesar was called into service again to administrate the Roman territories in Spain and while there a grieving Caesar stumbled upon a statue of Alexander the Great and at the sight of the man who had conquered half the known world at age 32 Caesar was also 32 at the time contemplated his life and his shortcomings fell to his knees at the feet of the statue and wept swearing that one day Julius Caesar would be equal to or greater than Alexander the Great with a new level of ambition unlocked Caesar finished his job in Spain you know subduing a few local tribes who had the audacity to rebel against the Romans because you know how dare they be upset that we just come into their lands and take what's theirs and impose taxes and if they don't pay us taxes after we stole their land we kill them like how can they be upset says I do something about it Caesar handled Rome's business yet another victorious military campaign under his belt and returned to Rome with a sight set on becoming Pontifex Maximus and if you're not a historian that means absolutely nothing to you other than the fact that it sounds very cool so let me explain what Pontifex Maximus actually means it's the top dog chief priest position in the Roman religion and it had a bunch of duties like regulating the calendar which was actually a thing back then or supervising marriage adoptions wills random stuff but for Caesar that position would have mostly just been a way to do favors for people in power and earn favors from people in power in return you know you scratch our backs we'll scratch yours well Jules the funny thing about my back is that it's located on my cock there will be a stepping stone on his rise to relevance and so getting that position was important to him so important that Caesar literally spent his fortune to beat out his competitors to secure the position of Pontifex Maximus in fact Caesar didn't just spend all of his fortune he spent other people's money too money he borrowed in return for promises of doing them favors once he is appointed in the future Caesar used the borrowed money to put on the most lavish election campaign because reminder Roman politics were a popularity contest and Caesar played the game better than anyone he spent money to put on gladiatorial events for the people brought in exotic beasts to fight against these gladiators and all that coupled with his charm his ability to speak and won in the election easy in 63 BCE Caesar was officially appointed Pontifex Maximus a broke-ass Pontifex Maximus seriously in debt like so seriously in debt that it's like when he hosted parties bro was replacing the wine and those jugs with the cheap you all been there some of us are still there so yeah Cesar was broke and what do you do when you're broke as hell you start an Onlyfans account you align yourself with the richest man in Rome and that's exactly what Cesar did that rich man was Marcus Licinius Crassus and Crassus wanted a couple of those favors Cesar was now able to do for people in his new position as the high priest you know Crassus wanted a lot of favors and then one day and that day may never come I'll call upon you to do a service for me in return Crassus paid off half of Cesar's debt a perfect marriage of corruption of course other powerful Romans noticed this brome man's brome man's and one of them wanted to get in on the action too Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus or just Pompeii Pompeii was a military man a respected general of serious status so serious that he was literally nicknamed Pompeii the great and he didn't really like Cesar's rise to fame all that much but at the same time he knew that there was no stopping this guy so Pompeii went with the good old keep and also supported Cesar and Cesar played the same game marrying his daughter to old Pompeii to make that alliance official some would say marrying off your only daughter for political gain is wrong others say he followed the pet manual step by goddamn step all of this played right into Cesar's hand because Cesar was not even remotely satisfied with just being some high priest my guy was on that Alexander the Great quest remember Cesar had set his sights on becoming the consul of Rome the highest position as far as ruling went within the Roman Republic and with the support of the people Crassus's money and Pompeii's respect that ambition was not all that ambitious it was a foregone conclusion in 59 BCE Julius Cesar was elected co-consul of Rome alongside a man named Bibulus who was basically the Robin to Cesar's Batman if Robin was constantly told to shut the hell up by Batman for a few months until he gives up his spot and leaves Batman to do everything alone that's what Cesar wanted he was now the consul the highest position there was all thanks to the so-called triumvirate he had formed with Crassus and Pompeii the triangle of power between these three powerful men and now Rome was as close to being under Cesar's control as ever and as consul Cesar was able to lay the foundation of eventually bringing Rome entirely under his control one day he passed laws without consulting the senate laws like giving lands to veterans and other laws that more and more cemented him as the man of the people Cesar also appointed friends and supporters in political positions and did plenty of favors for Pompeii and Crassus so that anyone who opposed Cesar was automatically opposed by the soldiers Pompeii had patrolling the city and anyone who needed to be bought well thanks to Crassus's funding Cesar had all the money to buy everybody he wanted and all of this was super illegal by the way like Cesar broke all the laws as a consul and while you have immunity as a consul and are literally untouchable a consulship only lasts for a year after that you can and will be tried for your crimes and Cesar knew that of course so him Pompeii and Crassus the triumvirate the three men they devised a plan once his term as consul was up Cesar would be appointed governor of Gaul a position that also comes with immunity a little bit outside of Rome and the plan was that Cesar would govern and campaign in Gaul for 10 years until he is eligible to run for consul again and return so once his consulship was officially up in 58 BCE Cesar followed the plan left on this new military campaign and again not just to conquer for Rome but to line his pockets and to avoid the prosecution he would have 100 faced and he stayed in Rome so Cesar took four legions which is roughly 40 000 soldiers and decided that the people of Gaul don't really need their land all that much anyway and were ready to be conquered how to get rich quick Gaul edition by Julius Cesar first find the land that is divided and has a lot against one another second support one of the kings in return for letting you in two sad lands three join forces and take down the common enemy tribe four threaten the tribe that fought alongside you while they are weak from the battle five force them to now fight for you and feed your army and pay taxes to you six go to the next tribe seven rinse and repeat that's more or less how Cesar took over Gaul tribe by tribe region by region and eventually after almost five years just five years i should say Julius Cesar had conquered all of Gaul governed their land collected their taxes which made him stupid rich and even managed to invade Britain after he was done with Gaul Britain which at the time was an island few Romans had even heard of but Cesar's military campaigns they're well documented in many other videos and that's not what i want to focus on it will blow the scope of these videos however there's one aspect to his military campaigns to his military side that's important for you to understand in this video too Cesar didn't win these battles with superior numbers he was actually heavily outnumbered all throughout these campaigns so let's just go into slight detail on one legendary battle to highlight Cesar's military genius and consider this example a very accurate depiction of the Cesar was throughout his lifetime the battle of Alesia 52 BCE after Cesar and his troops conquered Gaul and were busy murdering and thieving in Britain against the will of the inhabitants one of the Gaul leaders had the audacity to take back his homeland all right i guess it's just i guess there's no dog for the rest of the video i hope i got your attention man if you turn off now i am gonna be thoroughly disappointed and i'm just gonna that's the least he can do for the food and the drink anyway we were somewhere on the Gaul this is unscripted i'm not that back to the video one of the Gaul leaders has pulled a picture back up had the audacity to take back his homeland Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix united some of the Gaul tribes and led successful attacks against the Roman invaders which forced Cesar to abandon the British island and return to Gaul to face Vercingetorix in a battle for the future over the Gaul's homeland but Vercingetorix knew that facing Cesar in a head-on battle would be a deadly mistake would be suicide so he retreated from Cesar's troops and scorched the earth on his retreat making Cesar's troops follow him because he was attacking camp after camp and they needed Cesar and his troops support but following through scorched earth meant that Cesar and his troops literally had to march through hell and in fact this chase on scorched earth was so hellish that at almost 50 years old Cesar had to join his troops in the vanguard on the many skirmishes that happened along the way joined them in the vanguard sword in hand blood on his armor battling and all that over 50 years old no sorry at almost 50 years old to boost their morale and it worked because Cesar's troops made it through the chase and eventually his legions chased the Vercingetorix army or rather caught up with them at the city of Alesia a strategic stronghold that only an idiot would dare to attack once the enemy has taken hold of it and Cesar is not an idiot so the Roman army laid siege to the city to starve them out but that is actually what Vercingetorix wanted because he had long sent for reinforcements to attack the Romans from behind pinch them in overwhelm them and defeat them that meant that Cesar could not attack the city because that would be idiotic and he could not starve them out so what did he do he had his men built a 10 mile fence around the city of Alesia to fence them in and entirely cut them off from supply lines and then his army built another 14 mile fence around his own troops besieging the city to protect them from the incoming Gaul reinforcement forces so when these Gaul reinforcements arrived the Romans fought them from behind their own fence and used choke points to hold off the Gauls who had superior numbers and while the battle was in full swing Cesar sent a cavalry unit around the back to attack the Gauls from behind and the Gauls actually thought that these cavalry units signaled a whole swarm of Roman legions that were coming to reinforce Cesar and his troops so they panicked the Gauls panicked and fled the battlefield fooled by Cesar's deception and with his backup gone Vercingetorix knew his people and the city of Alesia were doomed so he surrendered to Cesar after defeat so devastating to such an epic display of genius that that surrender was forever immortalized in this painting Cesar was him if him is being the murderer of 1 million people because when Cesar arrived in Gaul in 58 BCE there had been roughly 6 million people living there and by 50 BCE 1 million of them had been killed and another 1 million had been sold into slavery um no so just let that sink in for a moment still for Rome this was a great victory and word of his conquest of Gaul and defeat of Vercingetorix quickly made it back to the capital where if there had been internet around at the time Cesar would have broken it so in 100 BCE before Cesar this was the Roman Republic and now in 50 BCE after Cesar had finished his latest conquest this was Rome now the conquering of Gaul the invasion of Britain and the defeat and surrender of Vercingetorix were Cesar's magnum opus and if this story had this would have been the key moment but there was one problem while Cesar was gone Crassus had died while campaigning elsewhere and with Crassus gone the triumvirate the power of three the balance of three was no more and with their balance of power broken Pompey seized as much control in Rome as he could while Cesar was away and Pompey lobbied against him remember how Cesar would have been up for prosecution for breaking laws as consul but a lot of the laws he broke was a favor to Pompey and remember how him Pompey and Crassus agreed that Cesar was to have governorship for 10 years in Gaul so that he could conquer the territories enrich himself and then return to run for consul again yeah while Cesar was gone Pompey turned serious snitch he told everybody that Cesar had overextended his term as governor of Gaul that he was conquering on taxpayers money and sacrificing the lives of Roman soldiers against orders without permission all for his own greed and excess and basically Pompey painted Cesar as an enemy of Rome all while Cesar was gone of course Cesar had supporters in the city but they were drowned out by Pompey and his supporters and word around Rome quickly became Cesar is a traitor Cesar stole territories from Rome Cesar is coming to attack us this was a real game of thrones chess move right here from Pompey I mean snitch as hell but well played well played sir because it ensured that when Cesar returns to Rome he will be tried punished stripped of everything he accumulated on his campaigns forced to turn it over to Rome and most likely be executed so what was Cesar's response to all of this he famously said the die is cast oh he was gonna come back to Rome all right yeah with his army with 10 legions and as 100,000 soldiers who have been fighting alongside Cesar for years would die for their general that had proven in battle that he would die for them Cesar was not gonna back down from Pompey he was bringing a war to old man Pompey and Rome except that this war was much more like a cold war than the previous civil wars that Rome was engulfed in this war was more of a race against time should Cesar and his troops make it to Rome Pompey would stand no chance so Pompey ordered legions of troops from the Greek territories to return to Rome ASAP and stand by his side and should they arrive in Rome before Cesar does Cesar would not be able to defeat them certainly not without burning down half of Rome and losing the support of the people in the process basically whoever manages to get to Rome first will be the one to win this race to the throne of Rome Cesar knew he would not be able to make it in time with his whole army so what he did was have one legion split off and he let that legion personally marched on the double and on January 10th 49 BCE Cesar and his legion famously crossed the Rubicon into Roman territory an act that symbolizes war against Rome but also an act that meant that Cesar had beaten Pompey to the punch so Pompey and his supporters fled the city Rome belonged to Julius Cesar now there was just one more thing standing between Cesar and absolute power Pompey and his powerful supporters from the senate were still alive after fleeing the city and two of those supporters are particularly noteworthy Marcus Junius Brutus and Marcus Porcius Cato remember how I told you that Cesar was a dog well one of the many bones that this dog had in his collection was Servilia the mother of Brutus and the half-sister of Cato now it is still debated to this day whether Servilia had Brutus with another man or if he is the illegitimate child of Cesar a child he might have had with Servilia in a teenage thing when he was about 14 or 15 not an unusual age at the time to get someone pregnant not back in ancient times but really we'll never know all we know is that due to his relationship with Brutus' mother Cesar and Brutus were close but Brutus was also close with his uncle Cato Brutus was also a man of the senate and Brutus was also a supporter of the republic through and through so Brutus was highly critical of Cesar seeking power for himself and highly critical of Cesar representing values that would doom the republic and effectively turn it into an empire to simplify Brutus was against Cesar and stood with Pompey and when Pompey fled Brutus and Cato were two of the supporters that fled Rome with him so before Cesar could enjoy having taken over Rome and rule it he had to take care of Pompey because he knew he would come back to fight him that meant that in 49 BCE shortly after his return Cesar left his best general and good friend Marcus Antonius aka Mark Anthony in charge of Rome while Cesar took his troops to Greece where he laid the smack down on Pompey I mean to be fair not easily they fought twice and Cesar lost once but Cesar won the decisive battle so decisively that Pompey fled to Egypt and what did Cesar do he chased Pompey to Egypt and when he finally got there Pompey had already been beheaded had chopped off and they were like yo Cesar hey here's Pompey's head but let me rewind a little bit why did they do that what was going on in Egypt at the time and the time is 48 BCE by the way Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemy dynasty a dynasty that started when one of Alexander the Great's generals took over Egypt you might know this dynasty best as the one that Cleopatra belongs to man I swear this video is such a name dropping video it's just like I'm just dropping these big names right yeah Cleopatra appears now and currently though Cleopatra was an exile not a queen kind of a queen but a queen in exile and the one actually in charge of Egypt was her 13 year old brother Pharaoh Ptolemy the 13th and when Pompey arrived in Egypt Pharaoh Puberty the 13th wasn't about to show hospitality to a man that was being chased down by Cesar even here in Egypt people knew of the greatness and ruthlessness of Gaius Julius Cesar and he was not somebody you want barreling down on your country angry so Pharaoh Puberty 13 had Pompey beheaded and when Cesar got there he proudly presented Pompey's severed head to him Cesar was pissed shame on the house of Ptolemy for such barbarity shame you are enemies he was a consul of Rome a consul of Rome Cesar was actually chasing Pompey down to tell him that he forgives him and wanted to offer him a position in the senate he came to tell him that he had already forgiven all of Pompey's supporters including Brutus and also reinstated their position in the senate so he was not happy at all that Pompey was dead and was mad mad at Ptolemy the 13th then remember how I just said Cleopatra was an exile yeah she was beefing with her brother too it was a whole weird thing about how her brother was married to her when she was well no sorry when he was 11 and she was like 19 it's weird how funny you look in father's chair they were beefing she was exiled and once exiled Cleopatra got word from her spies that her brother had started beef with Cesar Cleopatra had herself smuggled into Cesar's camp wrapped in a rug like seriously she wrapped herself in a rug and had that prime delivery sent straight to Cesar's place in Alexandria Egypt where when 51 year old Julius Cesar unrolled the rug beautiful 21 year old Cleopatra ready to do some seducing and scheming she convinced Cesar to overthrow her brother and install her as pharaoh a pharaoh that would always be on Rome's side supply the republic with food always pay taxes on time and also a pharaoh that would get sweaty with Cesar I'm not just saying that because Egypt is hot you know what I mean I say that because they had sex man these jokes are so stupid so Simpos Julius Cesar did as Cleopatra asked and casually started a civil war in Egypt in 47 BCE and defeated Ptolemy XIII's troops at the battle of the Nile where once again despite being over 50 years old Cesar was not some old man sitting back but actively a part of the battle his ship actually capsized in the fight and Cesar swam to shore during the battle while Ptolemy XIII's ship was also sunk during the battle but he the pharaoh drowned at sea Cesar won Cesar went to war for Cleopatra and won so Egypt was hers while she was his and so Simpos Julius decided to stay in Egypt with the new pharaoh for a couple more months for some loving and rumors in Rome started to spread while Cesar was away Antonius Mark Anthony and Cesar's other supporters pulled some strings to have Cesar appointed as sole dictator and now the man they had just elected was in Egypt getting it on with a foreigner to make it worse when Cesar did finally return to he brought Cleopatra with him that that that is blasphemous but it's okay because Cesar is still a badass who on his way back to Rome casually made a stop at the Bosporan kingdom to defeat King Pharnaces II in five hours a defeat so easy that Cesar then dropped one of the coldest quotes I came I saw I conquered though it should really be I came I saw I won I won at the end but semantics so now Cesar was seriously and fully in charge of Rome and again if this were to have a happy ending this would have been the last stop to get on that happy ending train remember Pompey's supporters that Cesar forgave I mentioned two there were a couple there were a lot in fact but remember Brutus who may or may not have been the son Cesar had with his old flame Servilia yeah Cesar not only forgave Brutus for siding with Pompey but during Cesar's battles with Pompey Julius Caesar went out of his way to ensure that no one would harm Brutus and now Brutus was one of the main guys plotting against Cesar ungrateful little snitch Cesar bringing along Cleopatra was the perfect controversy to exaggerate so Brutus and the other Pompey supporter snitches spread the word that Cesar had a son with Cleopatra and was a traitor to Rome rumors that Cesar of course denied but it didn't help that Cleopatra named the son he denied Ptolemy the 15th Cesar aka nickname Cesarion like girl read the room to the Cesar haters this union with Cleopatra was proof that he was planning to weaken the Roman bloodline and rule over the territories it was proof that Cesar was simply out for total domination for his own ego his own good and when Cesar was appointed dictator perpetual dictator for life in 44 BCE their fears peaked this was the last straw Brutus and his kin agreed Cesar had to be stopped or what little is left of the republic would be gone forever and Rome would serve at the whims of Julius Cesar so the little ungrateful Pompey supporting traitor snitches and togas decided that Cesar had to die and they set up a fake meeting fittingly in the Curia of Pompey at the entrance of the theater of Pompey where they planned to murder Cesar and on the morning Gaius Julius Cesar was set to attend that meeting his wife Calpurnia oh yeah he by the way he remarried and had a wife but you know on the night of the fateful meeting Calpurnia had a bad dream and told Cesar not to attend because she had a feeling that something might happen to him supposedly this is truly what happened and just as Cesar was about to listen to his wife guess who convinced him to go and attend the meeting Brutus the man whose life Cesar saved the man he forgave the man who may or may not have been his first born son Brutus convinced him to attend the meeting where Cesar was handed a document to inspect before 60 cowards and togas crowded him and assassinated him with 23 stab wounds on March 15 44 BCE and though we will never truly know Cesar's last words nor if there even were any Shakespeare famously interpreted and with his last breath Cesar covered his own face with his toga because he could not bear to stare into the eyes of the man who delivered the final and fatal blow killing Julius Cesar by stabbing him in the groin Brutus as for what happened after Cesar's death well all that kind of ties into a new series i'm maybe planning to start but you'll have to let me know in the if you want me to do the following series rome's greatest emperors