Comment on Proposal

Well getting the marks back from the proposal went alright I think, the comments sir made on it were
- That I need to start thinking about a specific question
- I need to get my hands on the book by Michael Parenti
- Do research on the omens that were "foretold" warning of the death

So I guess these are what I'll be working on, for some specific questions I'm thinking something like

How do the events leading up to and Julius Caesars assassination differ in accounts by historians, and how do these accounts differ in source use and analysis?

This won't be near my final question I'm thinking but its a start, the difficulty it stating a question that is not to broad but I can still write an interesting essay on.

The book by Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A peoples history of Rome, is cheap and simple to get on amazon so I would hope to have ordered that by the end of the weekend.

To research the omens I will have to find out other sources that write of the deaths of Caesar, these I have looked at:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/caesar2.htm

http://www.dark-stories.com/eng/julius_caesar_beware_the_ides_of_march.htm

http://www.roman-colosseum.info/roman-empire/julius-caesar-death.htm

These websites have the Omens that are most usually written about and are evident in both Plutarch and Suetonius's accounts, however these websites don't say anything about the bronze tablet discovered in the Tomb of Capys, the legendary founder of the town of Capua, this tablet it said to have the words "Disturb the bones of Capys, and a man of Trojan stock will be murdered by his kindred, and later avenged at great cost to italy" Suetonius also quotes this
"This story should not be dismissed as idle fiction, or a lie, because our source for it is none other than Cornelius Balbus, a close friend of Caesars"
and these websites also do not refer to the story of the little bird known as the king Wren, which is said to have flown into the Pompeian Assembly at Rome, pursued by all kinds of other birds, which tore the Wren to shreds

This is what research I have done recently and hopefully I will be getting access to Parenti's book soon.