In his best-selling book “Mastery” (2012), American author Robert Greene says, “All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world, to anticipate trends, to respond with speed and accuracy to any circumstance.” The answer lies in a mysterious form of intelligence that’s accessible to all of us. Why had Calpurnia had a premonition of her husband’s violent death? And what caused her to believe it so fervently, while the subject of the warning, Caesar, was able to be so easily persuaded that it was only a dream? Within moments, Brutus and the other Senators around Caesar pulled out their daggers and stabbed the defenseless Julius Caesar repeatedly leaving him to bleed out on the portico floor. A Senator by the name of Casca produced a dagger and thrust it at Caesar’s neck. Ignoring all signs and warnings, Caesar agreed to go with Decimus.Ĭalpurnia would never see her husband alive again.ĭuring the presentation of a petition in the Senate, Caesar was pulled down by his toga by Roman Senator Lucius Tillius Cimber while the other conspirators crowded around him. However, one of the conspirators named Decimus came to Caesar’s house and convinced him that his duty to the waiting Senators was more important than his wife’s dreams. ‘Help, ho! they murder Caesar!’ Who’s within?Ĭalpurnia’s fear was so convincing that Caesar initially agreed not to leave the house. Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,
Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night: This scene is imagined in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II.
Frightened by the visions of her husband’s death that had tormented her through the night, she clung to his clothes and begged him not to go into the Senate that day.
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On the nights leading up to the “Ides of March” (March 15th), ancient historians note that Calpurnia had a series of nightmares that disturbed her so much, she told Caesar about them in the morning. Since the Senators who plotted to kill Caesar only met a few times in secret in each other’s homes and never spoke openly of their plan, it would have been impossible for Capurnia to know for certain that her husband was in immediate danger. To avoid this, a group of Senators led by Marcus Brutus decided to assassinate Caesar - a plot they felt was the only way to save the future of the Republic.Īfter debating several options that included everything from pushing Caesar off a bridge to staging an elaborate “accident” during a gladiatorial show, the conspiring Senators agreed on killing him during the March 15th Senate meeting, since there would be no public witnesses and they could hide their daggers in their togas (anyone who ever attended a toga party in college knows you can hide a lot under those things.)Įdward John Poynter. This decree made many of the conservative Senators nervous that their Republic would soon become another monarchy with Caesar as king. In January of 44 BC, Julius Caesar was made “dictator for life” by the Roman Senate (I can think of a few political figures today who would love that title). A still from the 1953 film Julius Caesar.Ĭalpurnia trusted her intuition and believed important truths could be communicated through signs and omens.
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