The assassination of my great uncle, Julius Caesar, created a power vacuum in the Roman Republic. Several members of the Roman Senate assassinated him. This was just one month after he had declared himself dictator of the Roman world. In wake of his death, three men moved forward to form a new triumvirate. The second triumvirate goals were to punish Caesar’s assassins and to divide up the Roman world. The members of this triumvirate …showed first 75 words of 1789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1789 total…Rome. She took advantage of her guard’s carelessness and got herself into the mausoleum. She put on the royal robes, which she was accustomed to wear, and lay down in a richly perfumed coffin beside her Antony. Then she applied poisonous snakes to her veins and slipped into death at though into a sleep. The civil wars have ended and so has the Republic. I am thirty-two, and stand supreme over the Roman world.