What if Caesar wasent assassinated?

Belisarius why do you say that Caesar would not want to campain in Parthia after all he was going to.

if Caesar had a campain against the Parthians I think he would of tried to go for complete conquest since he looked up to Alexander the great so much. I believe that Caesar would have taken as far as Mesopotamia.

 Im assuming by saying the Parthians wernt honourable your referring to their way of waging war and fighting battles.

 I know the Romans atleast in the early days considered an enemy that did not confront it head on as cowardly, but really only because a frontal engagement favoured the Romans, if the Romans didnt get their way there was rarely a plan B.

 I suppose the Parthian viewpoint would of been, why should they meet the Romans in battle as the Romans wanted them to? why not use the tactics the Parthians are experts with? why put your army in jeopardy just for the sake of your enemy thinking you are honourable?

 Surely a clever victory, however it is gained is better than an *honourable* defeat.

Rome already controlled Parthia's invasion route to Egypt though, having either established client Kingdoms or directly annexed all the land in Syria and Judaea. As it was Rome was already milking Egypt for plenty of its worth, if I were Caesar I would prefer to tackle Parthia just to ensure Octavian has an easier time of it when he becomes Imperator.

As for Cleopatra's pheromones, well let's just say the only man who had the right idea was Octavian when he refused to get close enough to be seduced. She put her best assets to use for the national good, which is what I admire about the woman.

 Maybe not the total conquest or the Parthian empire, the cost of holding all of it would be enormous, but to weaken it so it were not longer a threat to the east would of been a sound investment. It would certainly of spared Rome some of the almost endless wars on its eastern frontier it had with Parthia.

 Trajan achieved this to a large extent when he replaced the Parthian king with his own puppet king and formally declared Mesopotamia a Roman province. However again the problem of holding onto his conquests was always the problem and Hadrian withdrew Roman forces from Mesopotamia back in order to avoid overextension of the army.

 The Parthians obviously recovered but they were just eventually replaced by as even greater menace the Sassanid's, the crippling of Parthia earlier by Caeser or whoever would have made life alot easier for Rome in the future. As it turned out there would be a constant Persian menace in the east for around 700 years until the Arabs replaced it.