i_says_things t1_ixg4qi5 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 4:35 AM

Reply to comment by blankName_2 in TIL nearly 60 senators were part of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, but he was stabbed 23 times, with only 1 wound being fatal. Caesar ultimately died at the base of the statue of his former rival, Pompey the Great. by axonable

Mike Duncans “History of Rome” podcast, and book “The Storm Before the Storm”, imo, paints a pretty explicit picture of a dying republic that had begun with the murder of the grachii brothers and was escalated by Marius and Sullu… Caesar was the natural evolution of a process already inevitable.

Also, you misspelled assassinated* big difference from an execution