The assassination of
Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by many Roman senators who
called themselves Liberators. Led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus
Junius Brutus, they stabbed Julius Caesar to death in a location adjacent to
the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. Caesar was
the dictator of the Roman Republic at the time, having recently been declared dictator
perpetuo by the Senate. This declaration made several senators fear that
Caesar wanted to overthrow the Senate in favor of tyranny, yet the conspirators
never restored the Roman Republic. The ramifications of the assassination led
to the Liberators' civil war and, ultimately, to the Principate period of the
Roman Empire.
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