“I will go.” sighs the authoritative voice of Rome’s most important person. His hesitation had been
suppressed by his friend and lieutenant, Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus. “Will someone of your stature
pay attention to the dreams of a woman and the omens of foolish men?” the man had asked his superior.
Despite his fears telling him otherwise, Julius Caesar had decided that the trusted Decimus was
right - though no one could ever be too cautious. As the almighty dictator prepared to meet the senate,
he opted to wear a layer of chain mail beneath his tunic, if only to ease his paranoia. Accompanied by
Decimus and a handful of bodyguards, still, hoping simply to quell his discontent,
Caesar was off to the Senate session. Upon the entourage's arrival caesar was approached by
Tilius Cimber who handed him a petition which addressed the recalling of his exiled brother
Cimber was surrounded by the other senators by this point but Caesar simply dismissed the group
and attempted to carry on in an instant chaos erupted... “STOP!” boomed the unmistakable voice
of caesar's loyal ally mark anthony at the sound of his cry caesar turned to his friend
hurtling toward him as simber frantically reached for the dictator's tunic a dagger suddenly in hand
caesar desperately tried to break free from the grasp as anthony reached the duo slamming
simber to the ground and freeing his friend in a single moment caesar escaped with no more than a
superficial cuts on his neck the rest of the senate stood in terrified and frozen silence
Cimber struggled back to his feet with a look of horror on his face, Anthony stood between the senators
and their leader he had just saved the life of Julius Caesar what if this had been the outcome
of the events of the ides of march 44 bc what if Caesar wasn't assassinated there are a plethora of
possibilities that could have saved the life of the roman dictator he had been cautioned
Mark Anthony could have arrived in time Caesar could have received more poignant warnings
the mighty ruler could have lived but he didn't so now we are left to wonder
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the conspirators had the situation been one in which he knew about the failed plot his supporters
amongst the general public may have done so as well but caesar's revenge would be damning still
we don't know whether he would go as far as to use this chance to turn the republic
into an empire by purging the senate of opposition as his successor would later do but let's assume
that he would prosecute those involved without threatening the republic in this case caesar
likely would have continued his populist and political reforms and he also had a few plans
for further conquest in fact days after the ides of march caesar was planning on heading off for
a campaign to eventually conquer all of Parthia starting first in Greece where he would set off
for Dacia the goal was to initially annex Dacia currently under the leadership of king Burebista
and then more easily take parthia but the former would not be easy to seize either nevertheless
caesar had already begun preparations for this campaign which he had believed would
take roughly three years in total the reason why he was planning to go first to greece
was that caesar had already sent over 16 legions and 10 000 cavalry for training and by march 18th
they were supposed to be ready for the dictator and his planned endeavor and while this sounds
like some good preparation it actually leads us to have some doubts about whether caesar could have
even accomplished his goals in darcia the reason for this is that even if caesar had been intending
to bring more than 6 legions he never seems to have amassed the necessary amount in the past
at times he had commanded roughly a dozen legions at once but even if he could do that in darcia he
still would have likely been heavily outnumbered this assumption is based on the current situation
in Dacia and the fact that in the 2nd century a.d emperor Trajan did manage to pacify Dacia but
it took two campaigns and a handful of additional legions to help and even with a larger army Trajan
couldn't beat adasia which had notably diminished since the time of caesar until the second campaign
this also means that when Trajan returned and won he already knew what to expect and could plan for
just that whereas Caesar may have been a bit too overconfident and therefore wouldn't have realized
that his six legions or even maybe a dozen were in for a serious challenge and maybe a mountain
they just couldn't climb especially given that king Burebista was a skilled leader and military
man just as caesar was so it's quite possible that Rome may have simply failed to take Dacia entirely
and could have even been locked in a war with the kingdom until Caesar's death at the least
but let's pretend for the sake of our imaginary timeline that Caesar somehow did defeat king
Burebista and annex Dacia the next target would be Parthia now even if somehow Rome was able to
top Dacia conquering Parthia would be no picnic in the park either it was even stated by Suetonius
that in this case caesar knew that parthia may be too tough of an opponent and it planned to proceed
cautiously according to some historians caesar surely would have had some success and maybe won
enough skirmishes and battles to satisfy himself and the romans back home but there's a very high
probability that he simply would have not been able to fully conquer parthia not only were
the parthians a formidable enemy just like the dacians but parthia itself was too far from rome
and much too large for caesar to logically be able to annex and maintain it the same additionally
caesar was not in good health by this point either and he may have never even made it back
from Parthia either from his health problems or simply death in battle so even if the case that
the Parthia campaign including Dacia had been able to go on or even been partially triumphant
one thing very probably would have remained the same caesar's successor would have been Octavian
due to caesar's lack of a better alternative Octavian likely would have ended up succeeding
caesar nevertheless and actually may have been able to do so even more easily had caesar lived
long enough to aid the transition so from the point of whenever caesar died things may not
have changed too drastically unless one plot twist happened to occur if Mark Anthony had managed to
reach Caesar in time to save his life either in the early moments of the assassination attempt
or before it even started had Caesar also believed him octavian may have been sidelined Anthony was
an undoubtedly important roman politician and although he would not have usually been caesar's
first choice the loyalty and bravery shown in his actions of saving the dictator's life may
have greatly shifted caesar's view of him in this case it is technically possible that mark anthony
could have succeeded caesar and had he also been able to defeat any challenges from opposition
may have altered the timeline of the roman republic's evolution anthony also may have
never died in egypt at his own hand if he had taken the place of caesar upon his death
this would be because if caesar didn't die for a bit longer anthony's relationship with cleopatra
may have never even begun meaning the events leading up to their deaths wouldn't occur and so
neither would the deaths themselves this scenario though less likely would have had a better chance
at altering the aftermath of caesar's death no matter what the scenario would have been had
caesar survived though it's hard to predict every variable and guess what the most accurate timeline
would have been theories and theories abound as to what rome would have looked like without
the successful assassination of julius caesar but still in most cases, it does seem like the republic
likely would have become an empire in roughly the same time especially had caesar's successor
remained Octavian as fun as it would be to believe that the change of one single yet theatrical event
would alter all of history to some extreme degree it appears that while caesar surviving
for a little longer would have changed some things it really wouldn't have been as dramatic
as we may like to think nevertheless given all the possible outcomes and timelines
we will never know for sure and it will always be fun to let our imaginations run wild