How Cato’s Deadly Rivalry With Caesar Destroyed Rome
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🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ryan presents the first of four excerpts from Josiah Osgood’s Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic. Here, in chapter one, Josiah sets the stage for Rome’s great collapse by describing the world that Julius Caesar grew up in, how Cato the Younger’s upbringing put him at odds with Caesar, and the explosive events that escalated the tension between them.
You can listen to Ryan’s recent conversation with Josiah here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.6 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
| 0:25.6 | We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that |
| 0:30.2 | you're able to apply it to actual life. |
| 0:33.6 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to a Sunday episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:45.8 | The clash between Caesar and Cato is one of the most epic clashes in all of history. |
| 0:56.1 | It was unavoidable. |
| 0:57.6 | It was inescapable. |
| 0:59.9 | It was a clash of civilizations, a clash of worldviews. |
| 1:04.2 | It was stoicism versus the antithesis of stoicism in many ways. |
| 1:10.6 | It was the Civil War literally in Rome, but also the Civil War for Rome's soul to crib |
| 1:17.2 | from Martin Luther King, the idea of a north of our soul and the south of our soul. |
| 1:22.4 | And yet and yet and yet, it's way more complicated than you think it is. |
| 1:28.9 | Cato, although we are fond of him here at Daily Stoic, was by no means perfect in this |
| 1:34.6 | clash as you may have learned in my episode with Josiah Osgood, the author of Uncommon |
| 1:40.8 | Wrath, how Caesar and Cato's deadly rivalry destroyed the Roman Republic. |
| 1:45.5 | Well in today's episode, I loved his book so much. |
| 1:48.0 | I wanted to bring you a chunk of it. |
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