julius caesar's assassination?

Question

hello!
i was wondering...did caesar already claim himself dictator for life when he was assassinated? or was he just planning to do so?
also....did the conspirators admit their crime, or was it found out?

Answer 1

It wasn't so much that he had made himself dictator (after all Sulla had done the same about 100 years earlier), but the fear that he was going to start a dynasty of Emperors - which, of course, was the eventual outcome of the civil war which followed his assassination. Romans had a dread of Kings/Emperors because of the experiences after the founding of the city - which led to the Republic.

Answer 2

The Senators had told him that he was voted in as the Dictator for life for all the territories out side of Rome, this was a plot dictated to the Senate from behind the scenes by his nephew Octavian and Brutus et al. Then on the day they were to announce it in the Senate, he was assassinated in the foyer of the Senate. The plan was well executed for it was Octavian who knew he was to succeed Julius as his heir and this would give him just what he wanted, he then became Dictator of all those territories and when he came back a winner from conquering Egypt and Marc Anthony he was self proclaimed himself to be Emperor of Rome. The very thing they said they killed Caesar for. All the Senators who put a knife in Caesar were killed or committed suicide. Good thing too because they would have told on Octavian. But Anthony and Cleopatra knew it was he. They all assassinated him in broad daylight in the name of Rome? What a farce they were all traitors and died. Octavian killed Caesarian the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra for he feared he would take the thrown of Egypt and Rome? How incredibly barbaric, it was his cousin he could have taken that little boy and befriended him and ruled together in peace right? Power and Greed it does not change ever.

Answer 3

It became Caesar's own knife. Caesar invented a salad dressing. Caesar appointed his cat as ambassador to Phyrees. Many dogs are named after him. Mark Antony became quite a pre-op.

Answer 4

In January of 49 BC, Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River in Northern Italy (see Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC) and plunged the Roman Republic into civil war. Caesar's rival, Pompey, fled to Greece. Within three months Caesar controlled the entire Italian peninsula and in Spain had defeated the legions loyal to Pompey.

Caesar now pursued Pompey to Greece. Although outnumbered, Caesar crushed the forces of his enemy but not before Pompey escaped to Egypt. Following Pompey to Egypt, Caesar was presented with his rival's severed head as a token of friendship. Before leaving the

The Assassination of Caesar
region, Caesar established Cleopatra as his surrogate ruler of Egypt. Caesar defeated his remaining rivals in North Africa in 47 BC and returned to Rome with his authority firmly established.

Caesar continued to consolidate his power and in February 44 BC, he declared himself dictator for life. This act, along with his continual effort to adorn himself with the trappings of power, turned many in the Senate against him. Sixty members of the Senate concluded that the only resolution to the problem was to assassinate Caesar.