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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2445602, member: 74282&quot;]I disagree. By 44 B.C. the Republic that represented the people was gone, and had been dead for quite some time. Violence had already become a regular part of the political machine, the tribunes had been stripped of their powers to defend the interests of the plebeians, and really not that much changed with regard to the liberty or representation of the average guy on the street when Caesar became dictator. Sure, power was concentrated in one man, but is it truly that different from what was happening previously when power was concentrated in the hands of only a few? The first triumvirate reveals that much. Caesar&#039;s dictatorship really only unmasked the fact(which common citizens probably already realized) that the &quot;public thing&quot; was really a &quot;private thing&quot; that did not represent them as a whole. In this light, regardless of the advertising that they attempted to hoist up around if, the actions of Brutus and others look more like a power struggle between rival factions rather than a struggle of the Republic versus autocracy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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