The Death of Caesar (March 15th 44 BC) // Nicolaus of Damascus // Ancient Source 

"middle eastern nobles" say who exactly were they.

@@DaDARKPass Brutus put his life and all of his friends on the line - they didn't know if Caesar's supporters would have them butchered in the forum the next morning.

​@@SethTheOriginmaybe. But they did it for themselves, not the people. They wanted to keep their privileges, and Caeser wanted reforms.

@@usergiodmsilva1983PTWhat an absolute load of bullshit

Still frame and cue *Roundabout*

wilson the conqueror he destroyed his own country... that isn’t anything to be proud of, even if you and your descendants end up becoming the emperor of known world.

@@Witnessmoo His conquest actually brought enormous wealth.

The populist destroyed it and not the corrupt ruling class that assassinated him and then fought a civil war? The Republic was a dead ideal and rotting away long before Caesar finally ended it, he spent his young adulthood on the run for his life from Sulla because he refused to divorce his wife. If that's the country he destroyed, I'm not sure many would weep.

@Jay See you could say Sulla lay the destruction of the republic with his tyrannical rule.

@@viataculouie91 but Sulla was trying to save the Republic from mob rule and demagogues like Marius, that's why he set up the cursos honurom and renounced his dictatorship.

Caesar: "The Ides have come and I still live!"

@@histguy101 whoops

@@RichMitch you're supposed to say "The Ides have come, but have not yet gone"😁

The original March Madness

@@histguy101 "But they have not gone yet"

I've looked only on Wikipedia, which is not a source of truth, but lets give it a go. I see that on Wikipedia this writing was done after the death of August's, so it's seen on retrospective.

@@viataculouie91 I'm not sure how good wikipedia is for history stuff, but most of my STEM professors suggest wikepedia as being a great source.

@@shipwreck9146 I guess it depends on the subject. Maybe those professors contribute to the STEM articles m

@@viataculouie91 Maybe, I'm not sure... I do learn a lot from Wikipedia though, mainly physics topics... but the math sections become extremely advanced extremely fast. It honestly amazes me that human minds came up with a lot of that stuff.

@@shipwreck9146 Wikipedia has been considered (by some study I once read, that I don't remember and can't source) to be about 90% accurate and well sourced, and also more accurate than the Encyclopedia Brittanica. That means it is useful for looking things up on your own, but nonetheless, shouldn't in and of itself be used as a source for school papers. In my opinion, the idea that Wikipedia is "notoriously unreliable" is just a popular myth. Where Wikipedia fails, is on articles about ideological, politically charged topics, where people with an agenda will make edits for their cause.

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"For you are not stones, but men! And being men and hearing the will of Caesar, it will inflame you, it will make you mad! Tis good you know not, that you are his heirs".

I have the original 40 books (in 5 volumes) of his history and his "Life of Octavian"

I was wondering this myself. Being unfamiliar with what sources are available containing reliable accounts of Julius Caesar's life/death. I'm also curious as to how they agree/differ in their details.

Let's face it, any medical diagnoses from this time period is going to be imprecise by our standards. Better than what would be available in Western Europe after the fall, to be sure, but medicine was still more of an art than a science in Rome.

Vertigo is nothing like epilepsy

от давления наверное страдал,его отец и дед умерли от инсульта,а сам Цезарь был уже в опасном возрасте.

The looting of Carthage alone didn't doom the Republic. Slavery and the establishment of vast plantations worked by said slaves and the establishment of permanent standing armies made up of poorer men who owed everything to their generals and not the government is what doomed the Republic.

@@Nonamearisto I think we're in agreement. Also, some blame can be laid at the feet of Cato the Elder who ended every speech with: "and in my opinion, Carthage must be destroyed."

You're obviously suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" or otherwise burdening the past with the bias of the present.

@@reallyhappenings5597 What's Trump got to do with any of this? In any case, no form of government can outwit the Pareto distribution. As Jesus said: "The poor will always be with us." We can temper the Pareto distribution and prolong our republic by honoring our commitment to rule of law and by disavowing violence. Finally, history teaches us that all republics (including our own) have a lifespan. Nothing is forever (except, possibly) death and taxes.

@@joanblond8527 We, the living, make history. New things are happening all the time. So you won't convince me, simply because other republics faltered, that ours must also. It has already endured longer than any other republic in history. It is worth preserving, fighting for. So stop your waking and fight for it!

oontgrad 😄

Where?

@@cullenkerr6556 That may be your opinion, but who cares ?

@@cullenkerr6556 - For being too merciful and good willed? If so and only in that case I can agree.

@@cullenkerr6556 - Whatever. Maybe it was in poor taste but IMO he was in general too gracious and merciful with his foes. He should not have been. More successful political leaders like Genghis Khan or Lenin were not. Temujin made sure that his internal enemies (also a conservative oligarchic faction) were disposessed and their wealth distributed among the people willing to follow him, that way he secured his power for good. Instead I see Caesar like the Chavistas (both Chávez and Maduro and the rest of the PSUV): too willing to compromise, not wanting to be perceived as too harsh or radical and thus allowing their enemies to retain large segments of actual power and strike against them over and over. Admittedly his other weakness was his narcissism or egocentrism, his half-wrong belief that he was somehow destinied to be like Alexander, a fantasy that plagued the ancients much like the ghost of Rome, of the Empire, plagued and still plagues Western civilization for the worse. My guess is that Caesar had that triumph in order to make clear who was the boss, maybe even misled by Anthony. Something we must appreciate with Caesar is that somehow he managed to lose all trustworthy quality backers when Labienus abandoned him. He was the last remnant of the Marian party on his own, he stood alone (save for brilliant but foreigner Cleopatra) and nobody is perfect: not Alexander, not Hannibal, not Caesar, nobody. We can only issue judgement on historical personalities when considering not just their context but also that they were silly humans like us, even the brightest of them, even the ethically highest of them. Sure, you can also make a destructive criticism of someone like Gandhi or King, if you wish to do so, lately I've been reading a lot of (rather despicable) character assassinations of Greta Thurnberg even. Nobody is perfect, absolutely nobody, and definitely Caesar has many contradictions. He was still well above his enemies, in Gaul as in Rome.

*Heroes may die, but they aren't forgotten. Fcuking Caesarian.*

It was lawful tyrannicide, not murder.

He did. He knew before the Rubicon he was a dead man

And then sleep with their wives to humiliate them.

@@histguy101 thats Caligula

@@blackwolf4653 They all did it, especially Julius Caesar and later Augustus.

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He liberated the inhabitants of Gaul from their Gaulish enslavers, even if he did so for his own reasons of petty ambition. He himself explains in his book how the vast majority of the people of Gaulish polities were little more than slaves, and that only the aristocratic minority of druids and knights were actually free people. The Gaulish socio-political regime was at best feudalism in its most degraded state, at worst utter slavism. The pity of that war was Crassus' expedition against the Aquitani, a very different type of nation (surely Aequitani = those of equity, who called the Gauls, "keldo" = scum, from which the Greeks, in very good terms with their Iberian and Ligurian cousins and generally in bad terms with the Gauls, adopted the term keltos > Celt). But that smaller campaign was not Caesar's doing, he just went along with it, Crassus' karma would bite him back three years later when he died along his father in the fatidic Parthian campaign, another stupid "glory to me" pointless war.

@@LuisAldamiz ceasar killed one third of the population. He is in no way a liberator

@@firstlast5454 great, those barbarians didn't deserve to live(jk). Still love caesar

@@peach5438 i did not mean to imply morality to the subject, just that he isnt a liberator

@@LuisAldamiz he killed a third and enslaved another third, all for political clout. He was a bastard.

@Goat Man yeah, I knew something wasn't quite right with my comment.

He's actually reported to have said καὶ σύ, τέκνον in Greek, meaning "You too, child?" The "et to Brute?" Comes from Shakespeare.

"Tu quoque, mi filii?"

@Lord Farquaad That's what Suetonius records him alleged to have said, although Seutonius himself believed he probably said nothing. Plutarch also recorded that one of the assassins, right at the beginning of the assault got really excited and scared and started shouting in Greek. Greek was commonly spoken among the wealthy. They probably did it to separate themselves from the commoners and uneducated, or thought it made them look cool. They were snobs.

@@histguy101 Existimo te non recte ratiocinatum esse, ut temporibus ultimis rei publicae plures delectati sunt elegantiis latinitatis.

Sorry

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That might be your speaker(s). My phone was better able to level out sharper sounds but usage has changed that a bit

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Not exactly

Um...what?

Captain Clone send him a calculator instead. His deficits are biblical