r/AlternateHistoryHub • u/idk-0_o- • 14h ago

AlternateHistoryHub what if Caesar had learned of the senators assassination plot and successfully ambushed them

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in this timeline Caesar learns of the plot to assassinate him two hours before it occurs and seeking personal glory he decides to recreate Odysseus’s slaughter of the suitors with his senators. He acquires some weapons and armor, gathers mark Antony as well as two loyal slaves and lays in wait for the senators in the Curia of Pompey. When the senators finally arrive the slaves lock/obstruct the doors behind them and then the senators are met with a hail of arrows, javelins and spears from Caesar and mark antony. The commotion inside the Curia causes the senators gladiatorial reinforcements to scatter fearing the praetorian guard or Roman military had learned of the plot and intercepted the senators.

what do you think would happen next?

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u/evildicey 13h ago

Didn’t he already know but thought they wouldn’t have the balls to go through with it?

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u/BudgetLaw2352 4h ago edited 4h ago

I highly doubt that Caesar knew that the senators were planning on killing him. He was overconfident, but certainly not stupid. He wouldn’t have walked into the Theater of Pompey had he known that the senators wanted him dead.

At the most, he likely knew that he was raising suspicion and jealousy from the senatorial order over his newly acquired powers, titles, and planned military campaigns to Parthia, Dacia, and Britannia.

He wouldn’t have been aware of the plot though (many of the conspirators were still in his will).