Caesar thinks that only cowards face death with acceptance and joy. Caesar cannot accept his death. The Ides of March was the day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in the year 44 B.C. Caesar thinks that men should run and hide from death to avoid it. That he is able to goad his captors by warning them to bind him demonstrates his calmness and his pride even in such a dire situation. The conspirators wanted to restore the republic, but instead, another round of horrors followed. Caesar thinks that the valiant bravely face death, which should not be prevented or feared. Caesar’s genius and his sympathy for the poor live on while his war against the Republic in favor of one-man rule . Finally, at the very moment preceding his death, Caesar compares himself to the gods of Olympus in his determination to continue his arbitrary administration of Roman justice. Of course, Caesar was right: Brutus dies when one of his friends gives him the final blow (Plutarch, Caesar 69.14), an end that appropriately fulfils Caesar… The scene of the assassination of Caesar was pretty bloody, with each of the conspirators adding his own knife wound to the fallen body of their leader. Caesar wants to be murdered both because he longs for death and because accepting his death with honor is the last way he can rebel against his captors. Julius Caesar was immensely popular with the people of Rome. . Caesar had served the Republic for eight years in the Gallic Wars, fully conquering the region of Gaul (roughly equivalent to modern-day France).After the Roman Senate demanded Caesar to disband his army and return home as a civilian, he refused, crossing the Rubicon with his army and plunging Rome into Caesar's Civil War in 49 BC. Julius Caesar, was surrounded by the powers of freewill when he was alive and dead, with his fate. But still, he did not die. Author unknown CC BY-SA 3.0. What does this excerpt reveal about Caesar's attitude toward death? Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic, and his assassins were Roman senators, fellow politicians who helped shape Roman policy and government. On March 15, 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in Rome, Italy. The dictator’s dying words are another version of Plutarch’s story, since they warn Brutus that he too, just like his victim, will soon meet his death. . [is] forgotten.” Filed under books , history , julius caesar , rome , 3/1/15 He acknowledges that having thought about it before, he has the "patience to endure it now." Caesar's inheritance (44-27) Mark Antony. Brutus has his part involved in his fate and freewill; in the end he accepts his inevitable death as his fate, even after hearing about the sudden death of Cassius, the one who planted the idea of killing Caesar in his head. Caesar's teeming arrogance and pride more than offset his proven ability to reason. For his part, Pompey, conqueror of Spain, Syria, and Palestine, was confident that so many of his veterans lived in Italy that he needed only to stamp his foot and legions would spring from the very soil. The Roman Republic following Caesar’s conquest and on the eve of its first full blown civil war in 49 B.C. A sage-warrior, he took his sword from his bedside and thrust it into his chest in an attempt to take his own life before Caesar could. Caesar was told, not long before his death, that the free-ranging herd of horses he had dedicated to the river-god, at his crossing of the Rubicon, stubbornly refused to graze, and were shedding copious tears. It was one of the major epoch-changing moments in the history of the world. Again, as he offered a sacrifice, Spurinna the augur warned him to beware of danger which threatened him before the Ides of March were past. In other words, Brutus appears to accept Portia's death as an inevitable fate that he can do nothing about. 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