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Article: From republic to empire: the assassins of Julius Caesar hoped to restore the Roman Republic, but they instead set in motion events that encouraged the rise and triumph of despots worse than Caesar.(History--Rome)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- January 24, 2005
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This is the eighth installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.
It is said that Marcus Brutus, one of Julius Caesar's assassins and, along with Cassius, the leader of Rome's last republican army, had an extraordinary vision one night while encamped with his army in Asia Minor. He and Cassius had raised a vast military force to challenge the Second Triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus, a sort of military junta assembled after the death of Julius Caesar. Brutus, sometimes called "the last Roman," knew that the time was fast approaching for a climactic battle with the forces of the Second Triumvirate, and was making ...
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