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    Symposion with Dr. Garrett Fagan (89 posts)
    Historical Thread 1 Featured March 18 , 2008

    From March 16-22, 2008, Dr. Garrett Fagan will join in an AW Symposion on the Fall of the Roman Republic and other things! ...
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    Author: * Silvia Caesar - 1 Post on this thread out of 48 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Mar 20, 2008 - 15:57

    Greetings, Dr Fagan, and many thanks for answering our questions.

    Concerning the Ides of March : what do you think of Garofano and Bursztajn's theory that Caesar used the "liberators" to commit a kind of assisted suicide ?

    Is this a man who is walking blindly to his death? Is this a man who is acting on an unconscious death wish? No, I think the evidence points to a man who is very conscious and very aware that he is going to be killed. said Dr. Bursztajn. Is it gratuitous speculation (pseudoarcheology... We, egyptologists, have our "pyramidiots", too) or is there something to think about ? I'm not very interested in TV shows trying to solve centuries of historical questions in 52 minutes of unchecked information, but I've always been intrigued by Caesar' behaviour during the last days of his life. I can hardly believe that he didn't know anything. Why then did he dismiss his body guards ? And what about the so-called temporal epilepsy ?


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