Originally Posted by Five_X Originally Posted by Master of Chaos CAESAR This doesn't even make much sense at all - and I'm not even going to go into your poorly-summarized history of the man's life and history yet! You're putting a huge amount of emphasis on Caesar's role as Flamen Dialis (one of several) and later his role as Pontifex Maximus. Caesar's only real interest in the gods was in his ability to make people think of him as divinely blessed, because Romans were a pretty superstitious bunch to say the least. He did things like ...
After doing quite a lot of reading, I've come to the conclusion that the assassination of Julius Caesar may have, in fact, been a strategic suicide on Caesar's part, a reversal of the plot of Cassius Longinus and Junius Brutus. I believe that Caesar intended this suicide after some contemplation as a pragmatic method of creating an empire or ensuring lasting political power in Rome. I'll write up a full pseudo-essay later on, possibly tomorrow.
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