Julius Caesar – CONSUL #5 – Mikaberidze Does Mithridates (PT2)
Life Of Caesar
Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris
4.4 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2014
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Our VIP guest on Consul #5 is again Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze who joins us to finish our discussion (from Consul #4) about Rome’s #1 enemy in the 1st Century BCE – Mithridates VI of Pontus. Alex is an Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Here’s his short bio: Born in the Soviet Kazakhstan, Dr. Mikaberidze […]
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| 0:00.0 | Life of Caesar |
| 0:02.0 | Tree of Caesar |
| 0:07.0 | With Ray and Cap |
| 0:11.0 | Caesar |
| 0:12.0 | Caesar was a vampire |
| 0:16.0 | Don't make me pull the son of Life of Caesar |
| 0:29.7 | Hey folks, it's Cameron, welcome back to the Life of Caesar console show. |
| 0:34.4 | This is episode number five, part two of the interview with Alexander |
| 0:39.0 | Mikotabitzi about Mithridates. If you haven't heard part four, you might want to go listen |
| 0:44.4 | to that because this is just going to start in the middle of a conversation of pro pro |
| 0:48.4 | nothing. So go back in here four and then come and listen to episode five. According to Mayo's book, obviously the Romans were big slavers. |
| 1:01.5 | But she says that slavery was forbidden by ancient Persian law and religion. |
| 1:08.5 | I think most of us sort of assume that slavery was fairly widespread in the ancient |
| 1:14.7 | world, but not in this part of the world. That's interesting. Not to say that they were not |
| 1:22.2 | involved in slavery, because we know that Pontus had a substantial income from slave trade. |
| 1:29.9 | So there is certain duality to this side. |
| 1:35.1 | So they were trading slaves but didn't keep slaves themselves? |
| 1:39.9 | Or did not encourage slavery as such. |
| 1:42.2 | Right. |
| 1:42.8 | So maybe if they had a war and they captured... |
| 1:47.2 | Prisoners of war. |
| 1:48.3 | Yeah, they would sell them into slavery, |
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