If I Could Time Travel: The Ides of March

If I could time travel, I would go to Rome on March 15, 44 BCE, to witness the assassination of Julius Caesar.

I want to see the moment when one of history's most powerful men fell to the daggers of his closest allies, and watch the conspirators celebrate what they believed was the salvation of the Republic، completely unaware they had just destroyed it forever.

I want to be there in the Senate when Caesar walks in, having ignored every warning and omen.

The soothsayer told him to beware the Ides of March.

His wife had nightmares.

Multiple people tried to hand him notes revealing the conspiracy.

Yet here he is, convinced of his invincibility, about to discover that power provides no protection against betrayal.

Picture the moment when the first blade strikes.

Caesar, who conquered Gaul and crossed the Rubicon, who defeated Pompey and made himself master of Rome, suddenly finding himself surrounded by men with knives.

The confusion on his face as he realizes these aren't random assassins، these are senators, colleagues, some of them friends he'd personally

elevated to power.

I want to see the exact instant when he spots Brutus among the attackers. "Et tu, Brute?"—and yet, you too, Brutus?

The betrayal by someone he considered almost a son must have hurt more than the twenty-three stab wounds.

I really want to witness is the profound irony unfolding in real time.

The conspirators believe they're saving the Roman Republic from tyranny.

They have no idea they've just guaranteed the opposite outcome.

By killing Caesar, they have accelerated the path towards the Empire.

The Republic they're trying to save died the moment their knives struck.

They just don't know it yet.

I want to be there for that moment of tragic miscalculation, when men convinced of their righteousness commit an act that produces the exact opposite of what they intended. They think they're killing a tyrant. They're actually creating the conditions for tyranny far worse than anything Caesar represented.