It is 15 March 44 BC
Caesar has just been murdered in the senate room. Whose side would you have taken? Those that saw Caesar as a tyrant and supported his killing or Mark Anthony's side?
Octavian, Mark Anthony ( pro caesarian ).
Brutus, Cicero ( anti Caesarian )
Vicarius Provinciae
Which side Would you have taken - post caesarian war.
It is 15 March 44 BC
Caesar has just been murdered in the senate room. Whose side would you have taken? Those that saw Caesar as a tyrant and supported his killing or Mark Anthony's side?
Last edited by EireEmerald; August 16, 2009 at 01:36 PM.
Re: Which side Would you have taken - post caesarian war.
Even though I would probably have been anti-caesarian during Julius Caesar's rein, the murder probably would have swayed me in favor of Caesar, so I would follow the pro-Caesarians
Forget the Cod this man needs a Sturgeon!
Primicerius
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the winning side...is my side
Protector Domesticus
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wow you are soOriginally Posted by P.A.
ing badass!!! making all that comments all over this forum on how
I would take pro-ceaserean side since the republic was really corrupt, i would see dictatorship as a middle step to a pure republic, like the one rome had at the beginnig.
You have a certain mentality, a "you vs them" and i know it is hard to see, but it is only your imagination which makes up enemies everywhere. I haven't professed anything but being neutral so why Do you feel the need to defend yourself from me?. Truly What are you defending? when there is nobody attacking?
Vicarius Provinciae
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I would have been with Caesar from start to finish.
Mr. Conservative
Tribunus
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I would be with the optimates...
Optio, Legio I Latina
Primicerius
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Brutus sounds cool, so I'll side with him.
According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.
- King Edward III, 1339
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AAAARRR
the senate took my dad on campaign and left him as a garrison in HISPAINIA for 5 years! our farm fell into ruin as all the land is taken into the latifundia while slaves work the land!, the senate recognizes the problems about the increasing poor in Roma and Italia, but do nothing about it, so no one will take the credit and have huge popularity!
then the senate murdered the Gracchi bro's. can the senate make themselves lose support anymore than this ?
Citizen
Re: Which side Would you have taken - post caesarian war.
Probably the Republicans. But who knows? The irony is, the more Democratic - I mean that in the loosest possible sense, I'm fully aware of the complexities - side of the conflict seemed to have their own interests more in mind than the people's, who at least got lip-service, bread and circuses from the popularist politicians. Chances are 95% of us would have been born into the Plebs. We'd be thinking with our stomachs and our property over anything else.
It's easy to pick sides with the benefits of hindsight and the comforts of modern scholarship to soothe idealism.
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Praeses
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Caesar, FTW!
Primicerius
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lol now wonder you have over 1400 posts and no rep
Vicarius Provinciae
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Well... he has a point...lol now wonder you have over 1400 posts and no rep
Cicero was a sissy and got killed with a knife through passed his collar bone and into his rib cage from above.
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He died by having his throat cut. His litter was identified, and he exposed his neck and asked his assassins to be quick about it. See Plutarch.
Arta. Data. Anusyia.
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Cicero is my homie
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Cicero and Brutus of course...
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude greater than
the animating contest for freedom, go
home from us in peace. We seek not
your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch
down and lick the hand that feeds you,
and may posterity forget that ye were
our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams
Miles
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Plutarch was pretty sharp on Cassius in his biography of Brutus, and did not recommend him very much. I don't know if he was ironic or not, but Cassius comes out as a pure badass in his pages, even despite his 'criticism'.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude greater than
the animating contest for freedom, go
home from us in peace. We seek not
your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch
down and lick the hand that feeds you,
and may posterity forget that ye were
our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams
Primicerius
Re: Which side Would you have taken - post caesarian war.
neither.
Campidoctor
Re: Which side Would you have taken - post caesarian war.
Caesarian, Mark Antony was a legend. Although this is solely based upon James Purefoy's performance in Rome, so it's not the most historical of decisions
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