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Reasons For the Assassination Of Julius Caesar, Reliability and Usefulness…

- - - - 'Undisguised Tyranny: His power was now not only absolute but perpetual'
      - 'But the most open and deadly hatred towards him was produced by his passion for the royal power'
      - Plutarch account of the events leading up to caesars assassination argue that caesar was aiming for absolute power and that is the reason for his assassination
      - using all of the sources and quotes, discuss the role of Cassius, marcus brutus, and decimus brutus
    - - 'Although he pretended to shun the title, in reality he desire to assume it' (this quote is referring to the title of Rex)
      - holds the opinion that caesar was a monarch in all but name
      - his goal of kingship was a result of the unprecedented legal powers he had gained
    - - coins displayed caesar on them with the title of dictator in perpetuity
      - Traditionally coins only depicted dead ancestors, gods or kings, hinting at caesars want to be king
    - - along with plutarchs account, Cassius Dio also says this action was suspected as being deliberate and that caesar was 'anxious for the name (rex), but wished to be somehow compelled to take it'
      - Cicero also accounts this event as ' a premeditated and deliberately planned wickedness'
  - - - ‘All these incidents will be interpreted as his effort to win it: for instance, if Antony offered him the crown the crowd had gone wild with enthusiasm, he would have accepted it. On the other hand they can be explained otherwise, some as attempts by Caesar to kill rumors that he wanted to become king and other as attempts by his political enemies to embarrass him’
    - - Goes through detail of how Caesar continued to refuse the title of kingship
        
        'the people clamoured that he become king and they shouted that there should be no longer any delay in crowing him as such' Damascus states that caesar refused this title
        
        when the senate placed a crown on caesar head he 'snatched it off'
        
        'when antonius crowned caesar a second time the people shouted in chorus, hail,king, but caesar still refused the crown'
        
        other sources such as Plutarch note how caesar refusal of the crown was due to his understanding of the people's dislike for kingship, however Nicolaus differs from this stating that the people insisted on his kingship and he refused
- - - - hints towards caesar honours being a tool of the conspirators to make caesar hated
- - - - along with his Scullard adresses rumoours of the time that caesar wanted to be king stating ' more probably these rumours were set on foot by his political enemies in order to dicredit him'
- - - - ‘When he (Caesar) became exalted through many notable victories (which was fair enough) and began to think himself superhuman the common people worshipped him, but he began to be obnoxious to the optimists and to those who were trying to obtain a share in the government. And so every kind of man combined against him’
      - along with this Suetonius comments on Caesar 'disregard of law'