Assassination of Julius Caesar

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1. Story
2. Caesar is killed in the Senate on the Ides of March 44 BCE by senators seeking to restore the Republic. The result was the opposite: fourteen further years of civil war ending in a monarchy that was more thorough than anything Caesar had held.
3. Knowledge
4. Rome
5. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
6. Gaius Julius Caesar
7. Assassination of Julius Caesar
8. Connections
9. Gaius Julius Caesar
10. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
11. Rome
12. The Roman Legion
13. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
14. Assassination of Julius Caesar
15. The Roman Legion
16. Assassination of Julius Caesar
17. Battle of Actium
18. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
19. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
20. The Roman Legion
21. Roman Law
22. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
23. Ostia Antica
24. Via Appia
25. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
26. Construction of the Via Appia begins
27. The Punic Wars
28. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
29. Assassination of Julius Caesar
30. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
31. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
32. Dedication of Constantinople
33. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
34. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
35. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
36. The Pantheon, Rome
37. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
38. Evidence
39. Augustus's own account of his achievements, in Latin and Greek, listing offices, benefactions, conquests and the claim that he 'transferred the state to the free disposal of the Senate and People'. It is the founding document of the Principate's self-presentation and simultaneously a piece of political advocacy, not a neutral record.