ABSTRACT
For millennia, man has attributed great importance to celestial alignments, believing them to be harbingers of great events. The location of the planets and stars determined the date on which the Roman emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated. In AD 96, 140 years later, the emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus was also killed by assassins. They chose the date and hour of his death based upon the alignment of the planet Mars, whose position in the sky suggested that the emperor’s protection would be at its weakest.
