Julius Caesar

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over Pompey but does not say that Caesar returned from a massive campaign. In Komroff’s account, The conspirators had planned for much longer than the other authors recorded. Komroff wrote that the conspirators convinced the Senate to offer Caesar the crown. The conspirators then placed a crown on a statue of Caesar that was quickly torn down by Caesar’s friends. "Then, a few days later, as he was riding through the streets of Rome, a crowd of people who had been led on by the Aristocrats hailed him as King" (Komroff 161-162). The final offer of the crown occurred before a large crowd of Romans, when a crown was placed on Caesar’s head he took it off and said "The Romans have no kings but their gods" (Komroff 162). Caesar refused the title every time because he knew that the second he did, the people would turn against him. Caesar also knew that the conspirators were behind these offers and was not about to play right into their hands. In both Shakespeare’s ...

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into office. Many of the conspirators did not trust Caesar, "Yet, Caesar still provoked in many deep resentment and distrust" (Bruns 102). Because Caesar was a leader of the people, the conspirators, who were of the aristocratic class, "hoped to regain control of the government" (Komroff 163). All of the sources also agree on when Caesar was killed. He was killed on March 15, the Ides of March.
In the time that Caesar was killed many details are different in the two types of accounts. In the historical account of Komroff, The conspirators crowded around Caesar when he was seated at the head of the Senate. The conspirators engaged in conversation with Caesar, ...

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