Why was ceaser killed?

Answer 1

Towards the end of his life, Julius Caesar grew arrogant and autocratic. When he was made dictator for life, the conspirators thought the Republic was ended. They murdered him thinking they were saving the Republic.

Answer 2

Rome had been involved in sporadic revolution for nearly a century - a struggle between vested interests of the aristocracy. This was complicated by generals who used their armies to blackmail the Senate for their own advancement.

Sulla had attempted to settle this in the 80s BCE, but this was dismantled after his retirement. A settlement in the 50s through a triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus and Pompey also failed, provoking civil war in which Caesar came out on top.

To prevent further problems, he assumed power as life dictator. His reforms were resented by the vested intersts and self-seekers, a group of whom assassinated him in order to promote their own interests. His death ended his reforms, and led to further civil war.

It was left to his adoptive son Octavius Augustus to establish a viable system of government by controlling and sidelining vested interests and insulating the army from them - which lasted for a couple of hundred years.

Answer 3

Caesar was murdered primarily because he had amassed too much power. Extreme power in the hands of one man was against the principles of the republic. It was the reason that the early Romans threw out the kings. The conspirators thought that they were saving the republic by assassinating Caesar.

Answer 4

There were suspicions, probably justified, that Caesar was trying to become a king. This was anathema to Republican culture. The Republic had been established some 460 years earlier with the overthrow of the last king of Rome who was a tyrant. The Romans decided to do away with the monarchy and to establish a Republic headed by two annually elected consuls. The aim of the Republic had been not to leave power in the hands of a sole man so as to prevent the return of tyranny. The Romans also swore that they would not allow anyone to become a king ever again. In the Early Republic trying to become a king had been the worst allegation against anyone. In the 5th century BC a man was killed and his house razed to the ground because he was accused of trying to become a king and in the 4th century BC another man was executed for the same reason.

Julius Caesar had used his military power and his enormous popularity among the Roman lower classes to concentrate power in his hands. Some of his behaviour seemed to strongly suggest that he wanted to become a king. To traditional republicans this would have meant the end of the Republic. They also equated monarchy to tyranny. Therefore, they decided to kill Caesar to save the Republic. Further justification for their action was provided by an old law of the Republic which authorised anyone to kill someone who tried to become a king and exempted them from punishment.

Answer 5

Caesar was killed because he had gained too much power.

Answer 6

His political rivals were afraid that he would eliminate the senate and become a tyrant

Answer 7

well he thought he needed to die