Hello and welcome to this episode of Epochs where I shall be returning to the story of the

decline of fall of the Roman Republic.

Now I want to tell it's quite a complicated story, it really is because there's so many characters. Sometimes

epochs are more or less simple to tell, sometimes it's a straightforward

narrative and sometimes it's a complicated one. Well the last days of the

Republic are quite complicated and it's really the story of Julius Caesar.

So over the next quite a few episodes, I think, of Epoch's, I want to tell the story of Crassus and Pompey again. I'll be returning to Pompey. There's an older episode you can see when I'm in conversation with Carl in the old studio.

But I'm going to talk about Pompey again. I want to talk about Cato. I want to talk about

Cicero. I've already talked a little bit about Cicero, more the philosophical thought of Cicero.

Stelios one time, but I'll talk more about the historical facts of his life, and Mark Antony, and all sorts of other figures, culminating really in a deep dive into the career of Julius Caesar himself.

So a fair few episodes of Epoch's,

all about the characters surrounding Caesar and the career of Caesar.

There'll be a whole episode just about the

Catalan conspiracy for example. I want to do a bit of a deep dive into the

the gang or mob wars of Clodius and Milo. But to begin with, I want to do an episode talking all about

Krasas. Now Krasas's story is of course inextricably bound up with both

Caesar and Pompey.

Crassus and Pompey's career, if you remember,

from the Marius and Siler episodes,

sort of kicked off a little bit before Julius Caesars.

They were on the scene a few years before Caesar himself.

And although in later years the showdown, the final showdown, is between Caesar and Pompeii,

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