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Do you think Cassius haunts Caesar's line ?

yeah, the escalating paranoia about conspiracies is really revealing (especially when you reach Caligula and the Cassius Incident) but I also think Cassius and his legacy haunts any tyrant. Caesar just happened to be the guy who climbed his way to the top in a place where Cassius could do something about it

Plutarch, Brutus (trans. Scott-Kilvert)

#brutus gets the title of idealized tyrant killer but that's because he was an indecisive wet cat about the whole thing #in addition to being a sellout and a nepotism hire. he's nice so that makes him easier to manipulate into a tolerable icon and paragon of #virtue. contrasted to cassius who had sharp teeth about the whole thing #people who hold power frequently do not like to think that their own violence will be met with resistance or retaliation #and will choose a better martyr and icon to trick people into thinking that emulating the virtue being sold to you will give you #whatever. imperialists and tyrants will repackage a martyr into a version they approve of and convince you that this is your guy #justice for cassius or whatever. these tags aren't even about cassius anymore.#ask tag #something something 'my name is not king but caesar' echo for how caesar will become synonymous with kings and emperors and tyrants #GOD these tags got off topic. i think the ides of march as a concept bothers a lot of people so cassius in turn haunts all of them too

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