"What would Caesar have done if he wasn't assasinated?" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Aug 2019 12:55 p.m. PST |
Interesting question… "I have asked people familiar with history this yet they didn't really give satisfying answers. What reforms would he do, would he go on more campaigns, would he even disband the Republic? What would be of Rome after he would inevitable die? Would the Roman Empire just start right up as it did or would the Republuc hold on for a bit longer?…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Editor in Chief Bill | 20 Aug 2019 1:12 p.m. PST |
lived |
GurKhan | 20 Aug 2019 1:39 p.m. PST |
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ChrisBrantley | 20 Aug 2019 1:48 p.m. PST |
According to historians, he was in the process of planning military campaigns against the Dacians and the Parthians (to avenge Carrhae) when he was assassinated. I suspect, if he lived and was successful there, eventually he would have sponsored military expeditions into Germania and a return to Britain. Of course, that assumes the world cooperated. |
Aurochs | 20 Aug 2019 1:50 p.m. PST |
Attacked Phartia and on his way to the east conquered Dacia. |
robert piepenbrink | 20 Aug 2019 3:31 p.m. PST |
I wonder. Sometimes it seems to me that his violent death in the short term was almost inevitable. He was making unnecessary enemies and didn't seem to care any more, and not--though I could have missed this--building the institutional structure which would have run Europe and Africa while he went about touring Mesopotamia with an army. Like Alexander: he might not have died exactly when and where he did, but neither of them was doing the things which lead to dying of old age and leaving a stable realm to the heir. |
olicana | 21 Aug 2019 1:23 a.m. PST |
If he had lived, and if he left Rome to go on another campaign, who would he leave in charge and how long would they have lasted once Caesars legions were engaged with a distant enemy? The actual history of what happened after his death clearly shows that the political system was tottering under the weight of over mighty faction leaders. So, isn't the question, were the civil wars inevitable, perhaps with one faction under Caesar? |
Timbo W | 21 Aug 2019 5:37 a.m. PST |
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Patrick R | 21 Aug 2019 9:08 a.m. PST |
The problem with Caesar is that he's too big and too controversial. His death is the perfect opportunity for Octavian to inherit his glory and none of the controversy. He's the perfect compromise candidate. Clean slate and all. If he lives Caesar is either going to die on campaign or try to pave the way for Caesarion, who is going to be controversial even if his dad sets him up as the perfect Roman, complete with military campaigns and involvement in Roman public life. Either way there will be another civil war, possible more as soon as the old man kicks the bucket. If Caesar lives long enough and Caesarion turns out to be competent enough it might actually skip Octavian and Rome turns out quite different either it collapses as the Julian-Ptolemaic dynasty stumbles at some point, or it never gets off the ground in the first place, if Caesarion turns out to be a useless weeb. |
Tango01 | 21 Aug 2019 12:15 p.m. PST |
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HMS Exeter | 21 Aug 2019 12:57 p.m. PST |
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Zephyr1 | 21 Aug 2019 9:50 p.m. PST |
"What would Caesar have done if he wasn't assasinated?" Been just another footnote in history, as Shakespeare would have chosen a different assassinated Emperor to write a play about… |
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