Cicero’s Fight for the Roman Republic

The Ancients

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🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Caesar Octavian, Mark Antony, Decimus Brutus and Cicero: the Battle of Mutina, April 43 BC, was a clash of giants. It also became the beginning of the end for one of Ancient Rome’s greatest orators, Cicero. For this episode, Steele Brand came back to take Tristan through the battle, and to explain how this event featured in Cicero's fall and represents the renowned orator's last great gamble. Steele is Assistant Professor of History at The King’s College in New York City. He has written about the Battle of Mutina in his book, ‘Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War’.

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast
0:08.3	we're going back to Roman battles. We're going to the late Roman Republic. We're going
0:13.0	to 43 BC and late April 43 BC. Forty-round this time of year we're going to Northern Italy
0:20.0	and a battle which can be really said as Cisrose last stand, his last to rise, last attempt
0:26.2	really to build a coalition to try and save the Republic from figures such as Mark Antony.
0:34.2	Now this was the Battle of Mutinets, a fantastic story and joining me to talk through the backgrounds,
0:41.1	the clash itself and this aftermath we've got back on the show Dr. Steele Brand. Steele
0:47.3	from King's College in New York, he's been on the show twice before to talk about the Roman
0:53.3	Republic and soldiers their way of life but also to talk about the Basil of Philippi and now
0:58.0	we're completing the trilogy with the Battle of Mutinets. So without further ado here's Steele.
1:08.2	Steele it's great to have you back on the podcast. Thank you for having me back. It's great to
1:13.1	talk to you as well. The Battle of Mutinets and the final years, the final months of Cisrose,
1:19.2	I mean because Steele when we do think of these Titanic clashes, these big events in the end of
1:24.3	the Roman Republic, we do sometimes think of Farsalus, Caesar, Pompeo, Cassius and Brutus and
1:29.6	Augustus and Mark Antony but Cisrose and the events around Mutinets, they're equally if not more
1:34.5	fascinating. They are. If you look at cinematic history and when they capture Rome in the movies,
1:40.9	Cisrose is one of the characters that usually doesn't get a future spot. I think we can blame
1:45.7	Shakespeare to a certain extent on that. He's like a bit player and as far as overlooked in
1:50.2	Julius Caesar but no the Battle of Mutinets is remarkable for all the reasons that we're going to
1:56.1	go into and the man behind all the action who's not actually in the thick of the action is Cisrose.
2:02.9	Now before diving into Mutinets and the campaign, let's go to the background. We've got to go to
2:07.2	the eyes of March in the assassination of Julius Caesar and Cisrose at that time. What do we know
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