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The assassination (murder) of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by forty Roman senators, the self-styled Liberatores. They were led by Cassius and Brutus.

The senators stabbed Caesar to death in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March, 15 March 44 BC. Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic at the time. He had been declared dictator perpetuo (dictator for life) by the Senate. This declaration resulted in many senators fearing that Caesar wanted to overthrow the Senate in favour of a tyranny.

The assassination led to civil war. The Second Triumvirate led to the ascendancy of Caesar's adopted heir Octavian to the position of emperor, and the end of the Republic leading to the Roman Empire. In the end, by murdering Caesar, the Liberators caused the end of the Republic they supported.

List of conspirators

The known members of the plot were:

  • Gaius Cassius Longinus
  • Marcus Junius Brutus
  • Servius Sulpicius Galba
  • Quintus Ligarius
  • Lucius Minucius Basilus
  • Servilius Casca
  • Gaius Servilius Casca (Servilius Casca's brother)
  • Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
  • Tillius Cimber
  • Caius Trebonius
  • Caecilius
  • Bucolianus (Caecilius' brother)
  • Rubrius Ruga
  • Marcus Spurius
  • Sextius Naso
  • Minucius Basilus
  • Pontius Aquila

Images for kids

  • Gaius Iulius Caesar (Vatican Museum)

    Possible bust of Julius Caesar, posthumous portrait in marble, 44–30 BC, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums.

  • The city of Rome, 44 B.C.E

    The city of Rome, 44 BC

  • Virgil Solis - Deification Caesar

    Deification of Julius Caesar, a 16th-century engraving by Virgil Solis illustrating Ovid's passage on the apotheosis of Caesar (Metamorphoses 15.745–850)

  • Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar 1802

    Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar (1802), copperplate engraving by Edward Scriven from a painting by Richard Westall, illustrating Act IV, Scene III, from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

  • Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Death of Caesar - Walters 37884

    Aftermath of the attack with Caesar's body abandoned in the foreground, La Mort de César by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1859–1867

  • Marko Antonije nad Cezarom Bela Čikoš Sesija

    Mark Antony with the dead body of Caesar, painted by Bela Čikoš Sesija, before 1920

  • Victor Honoré Janssens - The death of Caesar

    The death of Caesar by Victor Honoré Janssens, c. 1690s

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