Hello and welcome to this episode of Epoch's where I shall be continuing after one episode hiatus

my story my narrative of the decline of fall of the Roman Republic

now I've talked to you already all about Krasus and Cato and the Generation

Paphores of Marius and Sulla and various tribunes. Now we're going to

get to the meat of it. I, going to talk all about Pompey and Caesar.

And I mentioned before where their careers sort of overlaps so heavily,

the next few episodes of Epochs,'m going to do narratives of both Pompey and Caesar sort of cutting away and cutting between them where they overlap so heavily because if I did just all Pompey and then all Caesar

we'd be covering a lot of the same thing twice.

We'd be covering some of the same topics already more than once.

And I don't know how many episodes all this will be, probably quite a few. I like to do it in a fair amount of depth.

But to begin with, having said all of that, to begin with this first episode at least,

I'm going to concentrate almost exclusively if not

completely exclusively on Pompey just for the first episode because Pompey is

a little bit older than Caesar not much about five six years older than Caesar but

also his career started earlier so in terms of him being involved in the events of

history the politics of Rome, he actually's got a

head start on Caesar by 10 years or more. Caesar doesn't start particularly late,

but it certainly doesn't start early.

Whereas Pompey does, Pompe is involved in stuff when he's like 21, 22 years old.

In fact that's part of his story.

He's actually involved in things way too early he holds offices and

holds commands which technically he's got no right to hold he's far too young in

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