March 23th Daily

Do you think Caesar's killers were justified in their actions?

I personally think that the killers of Julius Caesar deserved such a harsh punishment of death because they assassinated Caesar. The sixty people that were involved with the murder of Caesar were part of the Senate. They didn't like Caesar because they went to the poor people for his votes instead of saying "vote for me because I am rich and friends with this senate member and this celebrity and they are rich too!" Caesar actually or at least seemed to really care that it was truly the common people's choice to vote for him, and he educated them on what he was running for.  A lot of the people from the Senate didn't like him because he went against what they thought was the right thing to do, and he went to the poor and common people of Rome. They felt as if the power only came from the high class people, but in reality it was the poor people who had the higher population which led to more votes by them. Caesar was smart to go to the common people before the high class people because he was able to get more votes because of the larger common people population. Much of the senators resented him for it though. They hated the fact that he was a great leader. They hated the fact that he actually cared about the common people and that he treated them fairly. They hated the fact that he was able to conquer so many places and places that they personally sent him in hopes that he would fail. Caesar was on of the best people that came from Rome and helped change Rome. The fact that they killed him because of their resentment towards him was awful and stupid. How could someone hate a  man who did so much good for an empire? But those sixty senators did hate him; and even though they killed him, they deserved to die because they purposefully killed one of the greatest Roman leaders to this day. 


Works Cited: 
http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar_t09.html
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar2.htm