La Mort De César (Voltaire)
Death of Caesar refers to the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. Death of Caesar or Death of Julius Caesar may also refer to: * ''The Death of Caesar'' (Gérôme), an 1867 painting * ''The death of Caesar'', an 1865 painting by Frederick Hamilton Jackson * ''The death of Caesar'' (Janssens), a 17th/18th-century painting * ''The Death of Julius Caesar'' (Camuccini), an 1806 painting * '' La morte di Cesare'', an 18th-century opera by Francesco Bianchi See also * Assassination of Julius Caesar (other) * Julius Caesar (other) * Caesar (other) * List of Roman emperors The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title ''Augustus'' to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...

Death Of Caesar
Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC by a group of senators during a Senate session at the Curia of Pompey, located within the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. The conspirators, numbering between 60 and 70 individuals and led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, stabbed Caesar approximately 23 times. They justified the act as a preemptive defense of the Roman Republic, asserting that Caesar's accumulation of lifelong political authority—including his perpetual dictatorship and other honors—threatened republican traditions. The assassination failed to achieve its immediate objective of restoring the Republic's institutions. Instead, it precipitated Caesar's posthumous deification, triggered the Liberators' civil war (43–42 BC) between his supporters and the conspirators, and contributed to the collapse of the Republic. These events ultimately culminated in the rise of the Rom ...
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