WI : Julius Caesar isn't assassinated.

Some thoughts -

Mark Antony catches wind of the assassination plot the night before it is due to occur from Servilius Casca. He moves to intercept Caesar before his arrival at the Senate and, although the plotters anticipate this, and send Trebonius to stop Antony reaching Caesar, this attempt is not successful. Antony reaches Caesar, the assassination attempt is averted and Servilius Casca has revealed himself as a participant in the events - both to the plotters and to Caesar/Antony. Both factions want to see him dead - he's the most hated person in the Republic at that point and flees Europe, at the same time as, but seperately to the ringleaders Brutus and Longinus.

Caesarion is only 3 at the time of the attempt on the life of his father - and Caesar himself is 55. Considering the ages of his parents and those of the Triumvirate, when they died, the longest he could expect to live would be another ten to fifteen years. The oldest we could expect to see Caesarion be were Caesar allowed to die of natural causes would be roughly 18. And that's not taking into account any subsequent assassination attempts that might occur or anything that might arise on campaign.

Caesar would probably try to capitalise on the fact that there had been an attempt on his life by the Senate by galvanising his support-base, the middle and working classes of Roman society. Many of the plotters - and some who are only suspected to have been part of the attempt - have unfortunate accidents, and the Senate is replenished with vocal Caesar fans, meaning that Caesar gets his way more than he did before, and this time there doesn't even need to be blackmail, threats of violence or actual violence to get it.

Caesar wants Caesarion to be his heir - and to the surprise of many - names him as such in his will. Shortly before Caesar dies, so too does Cleopatra and with the accession of Caesarion to the throne of Egypt, the Ptolemaic Kingdom effectively crumbles and becomes part of the Roman Empire with Caesarion as Pharoah in name only for the final few months before Caesar dies.
 
What specific posts in trade and politics where Rome didn't? For example, what political posts did Macedonia allow women where Rome doesn't?
Not sure about Macedonia tbh but Egypt and Syria allowed women to inherit and rule land in their own right and hold positions on ruling councils (including voting where it existed).
What I'm trying to get at here is that Rome wasn't exactly an equal opportunity democracy, it may have been more democratic for men but women had little official say.
 
Not sure about Macedonia tbh but Egypt and Syria allowed women to inherit and rule land in their own right and hold positions on ruling councils (including voting where it existed).
What I'm trying to get at here is that Rome wasn't exactly an equal opportunity democracy, it may have been more democratic for men but women had little official say.

I don't think I've heard that Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Syria allows women to own land in their own right and in their own name, instead of in the names their fathers or husband. And about ruling councils, I haven't heard of it unless the said woman was of the Royal family. Which in Egypt was the husband sister of the ruling pharoah, which in Rome is impossible as it was not a monarchy. And I haven't heard any woman who was an official councilor in the councils of the monarchy that wasn't the queen or family of the current king. Any influence women had in councils was strictly informal as a result of their family relations, even if as a result, they had tremendous influence.

Rome wasn't much better, but we know that women could and did manage businesses, in ancient Rome, especially in the lower classes. And women were also influential, but it was an informal influence. But sometimes, women wielded enormous influence, like Livia, or even Fulvia, or Clodia.

So my stand that socially and politically, Rome's women weren't inferior to the Eastern Monarchies, and compared to the Greek city states, especially Democratic Athens, women's position was much better.
 

Kaze

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To be fair there are other problems. Firstly - Julius's last meal on the Ides of March was with Livia Drusilla (Octactivian's Wife, reputed poisoner), Julius might still be dead by the end of the week from that meal. Secondly, Julius' heath - how long before the next "falling sickness" attack, the next attack might leave him a living vegetable - leading to a civil war among the heirs. Thirdly, say he goes east to fight - who is to say that he is going to be a successful general? He could die in battle leading to a civil war among the heirs.
 
The thing is whith Caesarion as Caesar heir is that he is both not a citizen of rome, so he can't have any offices oficaly and a foriner and that metered alot to regular Romans. Mark athones marage to Cleo patra killed most of his good will in rome and his (mostly egiption army) helped Octavian get his army to atualy fight ( they had refused to when thay tryed to finished the second civil war beforhand).
 
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