Hello, welcome to this episode of Epox, where after a two-week hiatus, I shall be continuing my story

all about the decline and fall of the Roman Republic. Thank you for staying with me. Hopefully

you're looking forward to continuing this story as much as I am. Last time I left off talking

about Caesar, did not if you remember, I'm doing the narrative intertwined with Pompey and

Caesar, but where Pompey's life or career, both actually, starts before Caesar's, did a couple

of episodes on him and his earlier career, and an episode on Caesar's earlier life and career.

So hopefully in this episode, or halfway through or towards the end of this episode, their

lives and careers

will start to properly intertwine. If you remember, I left off Pompey, where he had defeated

the pirates at that point in his career. And I'd left off Caesar. I was just about to start

talking about the Great Goddess scandal, the Bonadilla affair, whatever you want to call it.

And I should be continuing using Plutarch as the main source.

But very soon, during this episode, I would have thought, Appian starts picking up his narrative,

really where Pompeian Caesar's careers really start overlapping.

So we won't just be using Plutarch very soon.

We'll also have Appian.

And then going forward also I should be using Cassius Dio.

And then also probably from the next episode onwards or at some point I'll start using third party sources as well,

modern sources, modern historians, what they've got to say about these things. But for now,

we're just going to continue using Plutarch. Okay, let's continue then. If you remember,

I had said, or Plutarch had told us, that just explicitly Caesar's wife, Poppaia, and Claudius, Clodius, Pulcher, were lovers,

and that Caesar's mother, Orrelia, sort of tried to not let Poppaia out of her sight.

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