The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
The Ancients
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Caesar's Greatest Military Campaign
The fifteenth of march was said to be a big day for julius caesar, dictator of rome. He had called a senate meeting for that day before he left the city and embarked upon his next great military campaign. His ultimate goal was a campaign of vengeance against the parthian empire east of the euphrates river. The previous night, calpernia, caesar's wife, had dreamt that something terrible would befall him if he ventured to the senate meeting. One version has calpernia envisaging their house, collapsing. Another has holding caesar's murdered body in her hands. Our sources include a whole host of other foreboding, fantastical om
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