For those who are interested, we can make a good case for a non-historical Caesar. He represents the earth or its regenerative power. He is a Green Man--the mythical man of Old European lore who was decked in leaves and foliage, the very personification of the blooming greenery, it's heart and soul, so to speak. He is still depicted in old European churches and abbeys as a man with leaves on his head of entwined in his hair or his face is a leaf.

Caesar means "bald head" and he covered it with a laurel. As "bald head" he represents a mythical time on earth when its life radiation was entombed within and the planet was said to be bald or bare. This life force radiated out and conquered the bald, "featureless" earth, breaking it down like tilled soil, and that life force grew from that soil and evolved covering the earth with life. So does Caesar the conqueror put a laurel of leaves upon his bald head.

He was said to have been stabbed by 10 or 12 senators. These relate to the months of the lunar year and the solar year. The Roman calendar by Caesar's time has been a lunar one of about 10 months (it had intercalary months sometimes) and it was horribly obsolete.

He replaced it with a new solar calendar named after himself--the Julian Calendar. It has 12 months. So there are your 10 or 12 senators. The earth is being dominated or "killed" by the calendar, the sun, by time, work, schedules, penalties, sorrow. How many stab wounds? 23. The number of degrees the earth is tilted on its axis. It is that tilt that gives us the 12 months of the solar year because the sun passes through the 12 constellations of the zodiac due to that tilt.

That's why Caesar was told to beware the ides of March. That was springtime, the time of crossing the vernal equinox which had always been considered the start of the year in ancient times. Spring brought a new birth, a new calendar, a new heaven, and, ultimately, a new earth. This, in fact, appears to mark the true founding of Rome as a state. Before Caesar, we are back to the six mythical kings. Why couldn't Caesar have been as mythical?