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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey investigates on today's show of a very special guest.

His name is Alex Petikis.

His last name is spelled P-E-T-K-A-S.

If you're watching this on YouTube X, Rumble, Rockfin, you'll see the logo for his podcast.

The title of the podcast is the cost of glory. It references a phrase. The cost of glory is always great. And he is at 114 very well-researched episodes.

And Mr. Petkis has a Princeton PhDd so he's very knowledgeable on history and classics and

that's kind of his focus i think he's an expert on plutarch and his parallel lives like very

important information we were talking the pre-show about how much of the classics it's kind of

evaporated from modern consciousness.

I think that's shame.

So we're going to talk about his work, his research, and specifically some of the recent episodes

he did on Julius Caesar.

I'm aware of about five of those.

And we're going to just show kind of this kind of heroic lifestyle of julius

caesar and why it's important and why people need to learn about this stuff about men of action

and things people who made changes in the world we see a lot going on wrong in the world now so

hopefully people will step up and fill those rules maybe not my generation but the generation after me can fix some of the things that are going wrong. But Alex can talk more about that. So Alex Petkis, welcome to the show. It's great to be here with you, William. Excellent. So people, I know you've done a lot of shows. I know you've been around and talked

to a lot of different people for people who haven't heard your name or your work or your academic

accomplishments. Maybe you could do or talk a little bit of expand on your biography. What led you up

to the Cost of Glory podcast? And then we can talk about the importance of julius caesar well

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