On March 15, 44 BC, the Ides of March, Brutus, Cassius, and their co-conspirators stabbed Julius Caesar 23 times in the Senate. The conspirators believed they were saving the Republic. They thought removing one man would restore balance, preserve liberty, and uphold...
The collapse of the Roman Republic was not sudden. It was decades in the making, driven by corruption, civil war, and ambitious generals. But one man rewrote the rules of power and fundamentally changed Rome’s trajectory: Augustus. Before Augustus, Rome was chaotic....
