Caligula #19 – Lindsay Powell on Caligula
Life Of Caesar
Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
4.4 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ray recently interviewed Lindsay Powell about Caligula. I asked Ray for show notes. This is what he gave me.
"We talked of keeping the sources in context, considering the times they lived it and agenda. He went deep. Then his analysis of the events in the German border and the coast of Britain. And his apparent fickleness, which in a ruler, effects everyone but also how people like Suetonius probably used that."
See? That's what I have to work with.
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| 0:00.0 | Congratulations, Boy. |
| 0:09.0 | Many gave their lives that we might stand here once again, |
| 0:13.0 | united in the government of a lawful republic. |
| 0:18.9 | Gais Octavian, |
| 0:24.8 | whose henceforth to be regarded for all intents and purposes, |
| 0:26.6 | as my lawful sign, |
| 0:31.7 | Gaius Octavian, Caesar. |
| 0:37.9 | Welcome back, everyone, to the Life of Caligula podcast, episode 19. |
| 0:44.6 | Unfortunately, Sands Cameron, the Sunny to my share, the Costello to my abbot, the DiAngelo, to my Heather. Instead, we have with us today the historian and writer, Lindsay Powell. |
| 0:51.4 | He is the news editor for ancient history and ancient warfare magazines, the author of |
| 0:56.6 | several acclaimed books, including Marcus Agrippa, right-hand man of Caesar Augustus, Germanicus, |
| 1:03.4 | the magnificent life and mysterious death of Rome's most popular general, and most recently |
| 1:09.0 | Augustus at war, the struggle for the Pax |
| 1:12.3 | Augusta. All are available from pen and sword books. He has also written two books for Osprey |
| 1:18.1 | publishing, one on the Roman soldier versus German warrior in the first century AD, and the |
| 1:24.5 | other on the Bar-Kocobar War, a subject he is exploring further in a new book that he |
| 1:30.1 | is working on now. Born in Cardiff, Wales, he now lives in Austin, Texas. This is his third, |
| 1:36.7 | but not final time, on the Life of Caesar podcast. Mr. Powell, thank you very much for joining us today. |
| 1:43.6 | Thank you, Ray, and please call me, Lindsay. |
| 1:45.4 | I will struggle against my Southern programming and try that, sir. |
| 1:48.9 | So I want to throw out first that when Cam and I first started this series about Caligula, |
| 1:54.1 | we had to compare the general knowledge that we had received in mass media and school about this guy. |
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