The Romans were fascists, not always, but Caesar was murdered by his peers and friends because he turned the Republic into a dictatorship.
The Roman Republic became the Roman Empire and its emperors laid the ideological foundation for the divine right of kings later claimed by the monarchs of Europe.
The first official act of his successor, Augustus, was to force the senate to pass a law declaring Caesar a god, and being his legal son, well, that made him a god too.
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