1/8: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood (Author)
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1/8: Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Wrath-Rivalry-Destroyed-Republic/dp/1541620119
In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men’s toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war.
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| 0:38.0 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:40.0 | I welcome, Kato and Caesar, a new book from Professor Josiah Osgood, |
| 0:48.0 | teaching at Georgetown University, Uncommon Wrath, |
| 0:52.0 | how Caesar and Kato's deadly rivalry destroyed the Roman Republic. |
| 0:57.0 | These are vivid men, and what they represent to us two thousand years later is profound. |
| 1:04.0 | We in the American Republic, that shape our institutions on the basis of our understanding of the classical life in Greece and Rome. |
| 1:14.0 | And these two men, rivals, describe a deal of the tension that you can see in American history, |
| 1:21.0 | since the 18th century. |
| 1:23.0 | But right now, we begin, it is the year 64bc, e, |
| 1:29.0 | thanks to the calendar that counts backwards, |
| 1:33.0 | and Kato, a young man, born 95, seeks to establish a court to exact penalties |
| 1:43.0 | from other men, mostly optomettes, senior figures, or men of great families, |
| 1:51.0 | or sometimes ordinary men, common men, who won 50,000 st. or more during a period of brutality by a man named Sulla some years before. |
| 2:05.0 | These men were rewarded for turning in or murdering men whom Sulla regarded as his enemy. |
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