week 8 daily 3

The people who killed Julius Caesar were justified by their actions completely. The people who killed Julius Caesar were magistrates who assassinated him because he declared himself dictator. The first person to try and kill him was Casca but when Caesar blocked his attack and fought back Casca called for the other senators to come out and kill Caesar.  It is estimated that around 60 men came to kill Caesar and participated and Caesar was stabbed 23 times. The group that killed Caesar called themselves the liberators. After the death of Julius Caesar the lower class and the middle class accused the group of aristocrats and thus ended the Roman republic. Antony, seeing that the republic was weak, seized the opportunity to step in and try to end the republic, probably with the idea of ruling Rome himself. However, Julius Caesar left and adopted son to control Rome when he had passed and the son’s name was Julius Octavian. Octavian vowed that he would avenge his father’s death and rid Rome of the liberators and have Brutus and Cassius killed. Antony, Octavian and Lepidus, who was also named by Caesar Caesar’s master of the horse Lepidus,, who was also named by Caesar Caesar’s master of the horse Lepidus, all went to war against the group called the liberators in two wars and the army led by Brutus and Cassius was defeated at Philippi and they were killed. So in conclusion, the liberators were justified for the killing of Rome’s ruler and had what was coming to them.