AWA144 - Caesar - ruthless butcher or Republican saviour?

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Jasper answers this question from Dag, what's the latest vote on Caesar? A ruthless man who butchered and enslaved women and children for his personal benefit or a saviour in terms of combating and changing a corrupt oligarchy?

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers.
0:04.4	This is episode 144.
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0:28.1	Now, the first question is for Jasper today. I'm Murray Down, by the way, I'm the assistant editor
0:33.9	of Asian Warfare, and answering our question is yesper o'tash who is the editor uh now
0:39.2	the latest verdict on julius caesar uh this question is coming to us from one of our patrons
0:48.4	is he a ruthless butcher or a savior of the corrupt oligarchy?
0:57.2	That's not a leading question at all, is it, Maury?
0:59.3	You've got only two options.
1:00.6	You can't actually have a third.
1:03.0	Oh, you can.
1:03.8	No, you absolutely can.
1:04.7	You absolutely can.
1:05.6	As historians, we're not allowed to make value judgments.
1:10.1	And I think there's some value comments in there.
1:12.8	Ruthless Butcher.
1:14.5	Yes.
1:15.0	Yeah, for instance, or corrupt republic.
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