15th March, 44 BC
Gaius Julius Caesar was warned by Marcus Junius Brutus that his fellow
senators were planning to assassinate him that very day.
Because a corrupt nobility had benefited from Senatorial control of
the Republic for the four centuries since the explusion of Tarquin,
the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome. But Caesar had changed
all that, seizing control with the powerful army that he had formed in
Gaul. With the support of the army and the peasants he established a
dictatorship. And even if he had declined the title of King, he had no
hesitation in declaring himself a God.
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