Now watching the tv show 'Rome' it shows him being stabbed to death.
Which is the real way he died?
2007-01-26 05:39:41 · 23 answers · asked by Jennifer 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
On 15 March 44 BCE, the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was stabbed to death. There are several accounts of this incident, but the most famous and probably most accurate is the one that was written by Caesar's biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.70-c.135), who seems to have had access to imperial archives and may have consulted eyewitness accounts.
This is an extract,
"As he took his seat, the conspirators gathered about him as if to pay their respects, and straightway Tillius Cimber [7], who had assumed the lead, came nearer as though to ask something. When Caesar with a gesture put him off to another time, Cimber caught his toga by both shoulders. As Caesar cried, 'Why, this is violence!', one of the Cascas [8] stabbed him from one side just below the throat. Caesar caught Casca's arm and ran it through with his stylus, but as he tried to leap to his feet, he was stopped by another wound. When he saw that he was beset on every side by drawn daggers, he muffled his head in his robe, and at the same time drew down its lap to his feet with his left hand, in order to fall more decently, with the lower part of his body also covered. And in this wise he was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first stroke, though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, 'You too, my child?'
2007-01-26 05:47:29 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Julius Caesar was stabbed repeatedly by the Senate. Casca was the first, stabbing him in the shoulder from behind. His friend Brutus stabbed him in the groin.
Claudius was poisoned by a mushroom (probably poisoned by his wife, Agrippina)
2007-01-26 06:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Julius Caesar~Stabbed 30+ times (I think 34 or 35.)
Alexander the Great~Poisoned to death (Little doses at a time.)
2007-01-26 05:52:40 · answer #3 · answered by Shunsui Kyouraku is 100% MINE!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was stabbed during the Ides of March. He was becoming too powerful, so the Senate conspired to stab him. He initially fought off the attack, but rumor has it when he saw Brutus among the attackers he gave up and died.
2007-01-26 05:54:38 · answer #4 · answered by anon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After defeating his rival and former friend Pompieus Magnus in Greece, and following him to Egypt, Caesar returned to Rome master of the Roman world, declaring himself dictator for life. However, several members of the Senate feared his growing power, and conspired to murder him. Upon entering the Senate house, Caesar was set upon by the Senators, armed with knives. The other senators fled, and Caesar is said to have resisted his assasins, until he saw his friend Brutus was amongst them, when he was said to have collapsed, pulling his cloak over himself. Estimates vary on the number of wounds he sustained, some saying 40 or more, though figures under 20 are more realistic.
After his death, the assasins were hunted down by Mark Antony (his second-in-command) and Octavian (his grand-nephew and adopted son), who eventually fought for control of the Republic. Octavian emerged victorious, Antony killing himself after defeat in Egypt, and Octavian becoming the first Emperor of Rome, taking the name Augustus.
By the way, Alexander wasn't poisoned intentionaly. Weakend by years of battle and heavy drinking, he fell ill in Babylon, and was treated by a doctor who gave him a medicine containing mercury. Though not lethal in large doses, Alexander wanted to recover quickly, so took larger dodes. This killed him, aged 33.
2007-01-26 06:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by greenname16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly stabbed in the streets of Rome.
2007-01-26 05:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by MarauderX 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would you think he was poisoned? The senators conspired against him and stabbed him to death. By the way, Rome is the most awesome series ever!
2007-01-26 05:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by allieluvsorli 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was stabbed. A group of Roman senator conspired to contrive hes death and they stabbed him as a group outside fo the Stratory building. It was the Roman Emperor Claudius that was poisoned.
2007-01-26 06:56:29 · answer #8 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! He was stabbed by his closest advisors (not to mention his best friend, Brutus).
I think the person you're thinking of by dieing of being poisoned was Napoleon! Who was poisoned with arsenic, but he didn't die from arsenic (because if he had died from arsenic, he would have died years before he actually did). He had the disease syphilis and arsenic (at the time) was thought to be able to cure the disease (it doesn't, to say the least).
Napoleon actually died from stomach cancer (which actually ran in his family).
2007-01-26 06:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by Marilynne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was stabbed in the back by Brutus. Ever hear the expression e tu Brute? Read the play.
2007-01-26 05:52:20 · answer #10 · answered by evil_paul 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋