Episode CCXXVII - The Catiline Comparison (The Catiline Conspiracy VIII)

Emperors of Rome

La Trobe University

Roman Emire, Rhiannon Evans, Biography, Emperor, La Trobe University, Roman History, Julius Caesar, Rome, Caesar, Ancient History, History, Caillan Davenport, Roman Emperors

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Throughout our examination of the Catiline conspiracy we have avoided the urge to make comparisons between the events in Ancient Rome and modern day politics. In this episode we resist no more.

Part VIII of The Catiline Conspiracy

Guests:

Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)

Professor Nick Bisley (Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ahhay and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.
0:11.5	I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today are two guests.
0:15.0	Associate Professor Rianna Evans from Classics and Ancient History at Latrobe University
0:20.0	and also today Professor Nick Bisley, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at
0:26.0	Latrobe University.
0:28.1	This is episode C.C.X. V.I. The Cadeline comparison for the final XXII, the Catalan comparison.
0:34.3	For the final part of our in-depth look at the Catalan conspiracy,
0:38.2	we'll be discussing what we've resisted for the past seven episodes,
0:41.8	drawing a direct line between the story of
0:44.0	Catalan and current politics. He is Rianna Evans and Nick Bisley.
0:50.3	Okay, so the Bill Clinton anecdote, where shall we start with this?
0:54.0	When Bill Clinton was at school in the 1960s,
0:58.0	he was in Latin class and was being taught the Catalinarians,
1:02.0	so in Latin.
1:04.0	And his teacher decided to spice things up a bit
1:06.8	by not just having them read the speeches of Cicero,
1:10.6	but by having a mock trial for Catal and immediately Bill Clinton put his hand up and said I want to defend
1:16.4	Catalan and he has said in his biography that he then realized that he really wanted to be a lawyer and that kind of
1:26.0	started his career that got him to governor and then president.
1:30.7	So it's because of Catalan that the US got Bill Clinton as president.
1:34.6	Maybe.
1:35.6	Well, I mean, that's a very long bow.
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