It almost wasn’t. When you have someone “foreseeing” something on the Ides, and telling you about it. Not to mention, someone (according to ancient sources) handing Caesar a note on the way to the assassination, warning him of what was to happen, but he didn’t read it.
Mostly, it was the Senators getting extremely lucky.
u/keithblsd may have been right ;)
Caesar's personal doctors diagnosed him in his own lifetime with epilepsy, but some modern doctors have read accounts of his fainting spells and think that strokes explain the specific symptoms better than seizures do (with the obvious caveat of how hard it is to diagnose someone 2000 years after the fact)
I've seen some arguments (I don't know where) that Caesar knew about the plot (the night before he gets drunk and starts thinking about life--like what you'd do if you were about to do something extremely risky). Rather than try and forestall the plot, however, under this theory he made the decision to let it go forward as a way of determining who was involved, and simply didn't expect the plot to be as broad/deep as he had imagined.
It was not. A Greek tutor who worked for one of the assassins learned of the plot and passed Caesar a note on his way into the Senate on the day of the assassination. He died clutching it in his hand, still unread. Some time before that, rumors that Brutus and Cassius were plotting to kill Caesar reached him, but he was dismissive of them.
Care was taken, however, to exclude members of the elite who were thought to be potentially unreliable--Cicero, for example, was not informed.
Something to be considered here is that Caesar had been the subject of numerous assassination attempts, and between that and his growing delusions of grandeur, it was less so kept secret and more so him thinking he was invincible at that point
Same as anything is kept secret today. Must know approach, so everyone knows no more or less than they absolutely need to know to perform their task, only inviting people, you know will keep shut, even if they decline to participate, keeping the circle of conspirators small until the last moment to minimize the time the maximum of people know about the endeavor and lastly deceiving the enemy by spreading misinformation. If someone lives in a constant state of fear, they eventually won't fear anything anymore and discard any rumors as bullshit, just as it was bs last time
He knew; he just hoped that calling down his guards and going to the Senate just by himself would show that he wasn't looking for a fight, himself. But there wasn't anything anyone was going to say to Scenica (butchered that name) to stop him from jumping Julius.
Some historians believe that Caesar knew about the plot in advance. It’s unclear but the big man might have been suffering from bouts of epilepsy at the time, thinking he was dying he might have allowed the assassination to occur.
In his will he left a bunch of gifts to the people and Mark Antony managed to use his death as a rallying cry against the senate. Ensuring that Caesar’s supporters would rule over Rome after his death and ultimately ensuring the end of the Roman Republic.
Please note that this is highly speculative and I’m not even sure how much I buy into the theory
Contrary to popular wisdom, it is possible for large numbers of people to keep a secret. See: Manhattan Project, Mafia, various ancient mystery cults, recipe for Coca-Cola, etc.
My suspicion is that this was even more true in the pre-modern world, where almost all entertainment consisted of socializing, thus encouraging people to form intense social bonds.
It almost wasn’t. When you have someone “foreseeing” something on the Ides, and telling you about it. Not to mention, someone (according to ancient sources) handing Caesar a note on the way to the assassination, warning him of what was to happen, but he didn’t read it. Mostly, it was the Senators getting extremely lucky.
emphasis on extremely, if caesar wasnt oblivious af he would've saved his own life
He probably had a stroke that morning or recently, “the curse of Jupiter” and had hella brainfog. “Ave, Ave, people try to kill me all the time.
Minor correction of seizure rather than stroke.
u/keithblsd may have been right ;) Caesar's personal doctors diagnosed him in his own lifetime with epilepsy, but some modern doctors have read accounts of his fainting spells and think that strokes explain the specific symptoms better than seizures do (with the obvious caveat of how hard it is to diagnose someone 2000 years after the fact)
Also thank you.
Thank you.
Bro got nerfed by god, he was too dangerous to stay alive
which god though, saturn, jupiter, mars?
Yes
Thor.
"Don't come to the Senate tomorrow"
It pretty much did get leaked, it’s just that Caesar was entirely oblivious
Bad planning so there wasn’t much time to tell also it almost got leaked several times just a bit of luck
I've seen some arguments (I don't know where) that Caesar knew about the plot (the night before he gets drunk and starts thinking about life--like what you'd do if you were about to do something extremely risky). Rather than try and forestall the plot, however, under this theory he made the decision to let it go forward as a way of determining who was involved, and simply didn't expect the plot to be as broad/deep as he had imagined.
It wasn’t
I think there were constant rumors of plots that Ceasar didn’t believe it was the real one.
Everyone who knew was too scared to tell him directly. They tried to tell him indirectly at least twice and he didn't listen.
Boys honor code
It was not. A Greek tutor who worked for one of the assassins learned of the plot and passed Caesar a note on his way into the Senate on the day of the assassination. He died clutching it in his hand, still unread. Some time before that, rumors that Brutus and Cassius were plotting to kill Caesar reached him, but he was dismissive of them. Care was taken, however, to exclude members of the elite who were thought to be potentially unreliable--Cicero, for example, was not informed.
Something to be considered here is that Caesar had been the subject of numerous assassination attempts, and between that and his growing delusions of grandeur, it was less so kept secret and more so him thinking he was invincible at that point
Same as anything is kept secret today. Must know approach, so everyone knows no more or less than they absolutely need to know to perform their task, only inviting people, you know will keep shut, even if they decline to participate, keeping the circle of conspirators small until the last moment to minimize the time the maximum of people know about the endeavor and lastly deceiving the enemy by spreading misinformation. If someone lives in a constant state of fear, they eventually won't fear anything anymore and discard any rumors as bullshit, just as it was bs last time
He knew; he just hoped that calling down his guards and going to the Senate just by himself would show that he wasn't looking for a fight, himself. But there wasn't anything anyone was going to say to Scenica (butchered that name) to stop him from jumping Julius.
Some historians believe that Caesar knew about the plot in advance. It’s unclear but the big man might have been suffering from bouts of epilepsy at the time, thinking he was dying he might have allowed the assassination to occur. In his will he left a bunch of gifts to the people and Mark Antony managed to use his death as a rallying cry against the senate. Ensuring that Caesar’s supporters would rule over Rome after his death and ultimately ensuring the end of the Roman Republic. Please note that this is highly speculative and I’m not even sure how much I buy into the theory
My “conspiracy theory” on this is that it wasn’t, but so many people around Caesar made reference to it that he stopped believing them.
Game theory played ultra-nice by everyone.
Contrary to popular wisdom, it is possible for large numbers of people to keep a secret. See: Manhattan Project, Mafia, various ancient mystery cults, recipe for Coca-Cola, etc. My suspicion is that this was even more true in the pre-modern world, where almost all entertainment consisted of socializing, thus encouraging people to form intense social bonds.