Animal antics aside, the site has a less than welcoming history. On the Ides of March in 44 B. Panels placed throughout the site will walk visitors through its lengthy past, from its time as a training ground for Roman soldiers to its modern rediscovery. Yet Decimus was key. His motives are less opaque than most think and his behaviour shows just how well organised the conspirators were.
A populist political star and great writer, he excelled in the military realm as well, pulling off a lightning conquest of Gaul — roughly, France and Belgium — as well as invading Britain and Germany 58—50 BC. When his enemies, the old guard in the Senate, removed him from command, Caesar invaded Italy.
He went on to total victory in a civil war 49—45 BC that ranged across the Mediterranean. His challenge now was to reconcile his surviving enemies and to convince staunch republicans to accept his power as dictator. It was a daunting task. A later abridgment of this work survives and it focuses on the assassination. Until recently, scholars have tended to dismiss Nicolaus because he worked for Augustus and so had a motive to attack the conspirators. But recent work suggests that Nicolaus was a brilliant student of human nature who deserves more attention.
A series of letters between Decimus and Cicero, all written after the assassination, also shed light on the plot, but they too have been neglected. By contrast, Decimus backed Caesar from start to finish. During the conflict, Caesar appointed Decimus as his lieutenant to govern Gaul in his absence.
Then things turned sour. Perhaps what moved Decimus was the sight of the two triumphal parades in Rome in autumn 45 BC that Caesar allowed his lieutenants in Spain to celebrate, against all custom.
Caesar did not, however, grant a similar privilege to Decimus for his victory over a fierce Gallic tribe. Decimus meanwhile had to stay behind and govern Italian Gaul. Whatever his motives, once he turned on Caesar, Decimus was indispensable.
He behaved in ever-more dictatorial ways, summed up in his adoption of the unprecedented title of Dictator for Life. Caesar was not a king, but he had acquired the equivalent of royal power. To his critics, the favour he showed to Octavian raised the terrifying prospect of a dynasty.
They voted him a long stream of honours including, most egregiously, naming him a god, with plans afoot for priests and a temple. Others, however, decided that he had to be stopped, and so they decided on assassination. True, they acted in the name of the Republic and liberty and against a budding monarchy but they also saw in his growing influence a threat to their own power and privilege. Much of the Roman public hated the senators for the assassination, and a series of civil wars ensued.
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