Julius Caesar #1 – An Introduction To Caesar
Life Of Caesar
Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
4.4 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2013
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Welcome to our first episode! Think of this as a general introduction to Julius Caesar. We discuss a lot of myths and misconceptions that people might have about the man. Once again we sincerely want to thank everyone who has been leaving reviews on iTunes, Facebook and Twitter. The best reviews win one of our coffee mugs!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the very first inaugural, like I can say very first and inaugural. They mean the same thing. |
| 0:21.7 | Look, there we go. We're 10 seconds into it. That's going to be on the bloopers. |
| 0:25.5 | No, that's actually, I'll leave it in there, just so people know from the outset that I'm an idiot. |
| 0:30.4 | The very first episode of the Life of Caesar podcast series, My name is Cameron Riley. |
| 0:37.8 | As you can probably tell from the accent, I'm an Aussie, deal with it. |
| 0:42.2 | And my co-host, who I'm very excited to be doing this show with, all the way from Virginia, is Raymond Q, Harris, the world's leading expert on all things Julius Caesar, |
| 1:01.3 | as well as you probably may remember him from such things as the World War II podcast. |
| 1:08.1 | Ray, welcome to our new show. Thank you very much. Just a couple of corrections. |
| 1:13.4 | It's just Virginia. Don't beat it about too much. And it's just Ray Harris and that will be |
| 1:18.6 | fine, not Mr. Harris or professor or anything like that. Right. But I'm very humble. I've been |
| 1:25.6 | humbled many times. I am very excited to be here. I've read about Caesar and Rome and all this stuff for years, and so I'm just very excited to be able to talk about him once again, and this time have other people hear it. |
| 1:37.1 | So we should qualify my previous statement. Neither of us are experts on Caesar. |
| 1:42.7 | Absolutely. Just like neither of us are experts on World War II or Napoleon. |
| 1:46.9 | Some people may have listened to the Napoleon podcast that I did with Jay David Markham recently, |
| 1:51.5 | but you and I are passionate about Caesar. |
| 1:55.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:56.5 | I mean, a lot of people, you know, we're standing on the shoulders of people who have done a lot of hard work. |
| 2:01.3 | I've read a lot of books World War II. You've read a lot of books about Napoleon. And now together, |
| 2:05.3 | we're going to read a lot of books about Caesar and we're just going to share with everyone. |
| 2:09.6 | And hopefully the enthusiasm will come across and we'll just have a good time with it. |
| 2:13.0 | And hopefully, everybody will learn something on each episode. |
| 2:17.0 | And hopefully, they'll learn something and they'll also understand a little bit why we're |
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