“…Then fall, Caesar.”Quite a mouthful for a man that had just received the business end of some 20 knife blows. Well, whether or not he actually said these poetic final words, March 15 marks the anniversary of Julius Caesar’s assassination.
Though perhaps currently better known for his tacky desert palace, the name was once synonymous with Rome. His assassination was in response to the turning of the Roman Republic (a rather old boys club if there ever was one) into something more like a dictator… err… emperorship. Whether his rule would have been to help or hinder Rome is questionable. But one could assume he would have probably been better for Rome than the arsonist and horse whisperer that followed him.
And if we are to believe Shakespeare, all of this could have been avoided if he would have just listened to his wife when she was talking about her bad dreams.
posted by jw
