Does anyone know why Caesar doesn't have any lictors with him when he was assassinated?

Longer living Caesar would be very intresting, altough with his health he hardly would live 20 years but perhaps ten years longer. He planned war against Parthians just before his death.
*Caesar survives the assassination attempt, but barely*

"The attempt on my life has left me...scarred...and deformed. But I assure you, my resolve has never been stronger!"
 
Lictors were an exception.They are the only people who are allowed to carry weapons inside the senate and were assigned to protect consuls and dictators.

This is correct concerning dictatorial lictors but I strongly doubt Caesar's lictors ever were in a position to prevent the onslaught by Caesar's murderers.

No source tells us that the lictors were inside the Senate House on the ides of march. The most probable is that the lictors stayed at the doors of the Senate House and that, like most senators attending the meeting, they were overcome by panic. The murder triggered a terrible mess : the conspirators had not even prepared a decent plan to master the course of events after the murder.

You should visit Rome, if you never did, to realize the conditions in which this murder occurred. The Curia of Pompey, which served as Senate House on this day, has been found and is located on the Largo Argentina. Although part of a huge complex built by Pompey, the main part of which was a theater, the Curia by itself was a rather small building. Gathering 500 people inside this building means they were quite against each other.

And besides, there were social conventions. Senators were both citizens of a nominally free republic and aristocrats of the highest rank. So the lictors would not be on Caesar's back ready to jump on any potentially suspect senator.

Caesar had not taken security measures and he had even given signs that he would not take such measures by dismissing the spanish guard that had been in charge of his security during the previous months.

Just consider when the president of the USA makes his state of the Union adress. Once he is inside congress, among senators and representatives, the secret service officers are not on the president's back. They are at some distance. So if a group of congressmen, among which several prominent political allies and friends, come close to the president with former political opponents to introduce a request, what will happen then ? The secret service will not be able to react on time because if they have previously failed to prevent these congressmen to come so close to the president with daggers hidden in their jacket. It would be too late.
 
This is correct concerning dictatorial lictors but I strongly doubt Caesar's lictors ever were in a position to prevent the onslaught by Caesar's murderers.

No source tells us that the lictors were inside the Senate House on the ides of march. The most probable is that the lictors stayed at the doors of the Senate House and that, like most senators attending the meeting, they were overcome by panic. The murder triggered a terrible mess : the conspirators had not even prepared a decent plan to master the course of events after the murder.

You should visit Rome, if you never did, to realize the conditions in which this murder occurred. The Curia of Pompey, which served as Senate House on this day, has been found and is located on the Largo Argentina. Although part of a huge complex built by Pompey, the main part of which was a theater, the Curia by itself was a rather small building. Gathering 500 people inside this building means they were quite against each other.

And besides, there were social conventions. Senators were both citizens of a nominally free republic and aristocrats of the highest rank. So the lictors would not be on Caesar's back ready to jump on any potentially suspect senator.

Caesar had not taken security measures and he had even given signs that he would not take such measures by dismissing the spanish guard that had been in charge of his security during the previous months.

Just consider when the president of the USA makes his state of the Union adress. Once he is inside congress, among senators and representatives, the secret service officers are not on the president's back. They are at some distance. So if a group of congressmen, among which several prominent political allies and friends, come close to the president with former political opponents to introduce a request, what will happen then ? The secret service will not be able to react on time because if they have previously failed to prevent these congressmen to come so close to the president with daggers hidden in their jacket. It would be too late.
That introduces a question.WI the Lictors got berserk at the sight of the guy they are supposed to protect stabbed over twenty times and actually butchered all of the conspirators with their axes all sight?So basically,Caesar's still dead,but so are the Conspirators.
 
That introduces a question.WI the Lictors got berserk at the sight of the guy they are supposed to protect stabbed over twenty times and actually butchered all of the conspirators with their axes all sight?So basically,Caesar's still dead,but so are the Conspirators.

They won't go berserk. The lictors see roman citizens, and at that citizens of a more than decent standing.

The spanish guards could have gone berserk in theory but they were professional soldiers of the highest level and won't blindly slaughter anybody. Only if the y witnessed Caesar's murder might they slaughter his murderers.

Which brings us to the paradox in your question.

If they (be it the lictors or the spanish guard) had been close to Caesar, then their mere presence would probably have dissuaded the conspirators to attempt Caesar's murder.
 
They won't go berserk. The lictors see roman citizens, and at that citizens of a more than decent standing.

The spanish guards could have gone berserk in theory but they were professional soldiers of the highest level and won't blindly slaughter anybody. Only if the y witnessed Caesar's murder might they slaughter his murderers.

Which brings us to the paradox in your question.

If they (be it the lictors or the spanish guard) had been close to Caesar, then their mere presence would probably have dissuaded the conspirators to attempt Caesar's murder.
I do believe Caesar has the perogative to oick his own lictors,so it wouldn't be surprising if they are veterans from his campaigns.
 
Istr a tv documentary, suggesting that Caesar's faculties were failing and he did not want to deteriorate into a senile old man, preferring to "go out with a bang". On this theory he may have welcomed his death, which thus was almost a form of suicide
 
Istr a tv documentary, suggesting that Caesar's faculties were failing and he did not want to deteriorate into a senile old man, preferring to "go out with a bang". On this theory he may have welcomed his death, which thus was almost a form of suicide
I thought the guy actually fought his assassins hard until Brutus came and stabbed him.
 
I thought the guy actually fought his assassins hard until Brutus came and stabbed him.

True. He fought with the only weapon he could use : a stylet/pencil. Against 23 men attacking him with daggers. And he wounded several of his murderers. This is all but the attitude of a man who accepts dying. This rather was like Jason Bourne fighting for his life with anything he could use as a weapon. And Caesar almost could have survived : only one of his many wounds was a deadly one.

The theory that Caesar wanted to die is utter nonsense. It is tautological.
 
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