Hello and welcome to this episode of Epox, where I should be continuing my narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic,

and also the narrative of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul.

And we get into the most important bit, or the most interesting bit, the denouement of the piece, almost,

when the Gaulic tribes form their last big giant resistance and Caesar, hope it's no spoiler alert,

Caesar defeats them all. And we're introduced to Versengettrix. It is the rebellion, book seven,

the rebellion of Versengetteryx, the siege of Elysia and all that sort of thing. So let's get

straight into it because it's quite a long chapter. I'd want to try and get through this whole chapter, this episode if we can.

Then we'll have one more, the final year, 51 BC, where Caesar and Caesar's captains wrap everything up.

And then we can cut straight back to Rome.

However, I do need to mention at this point things that have been going on in Rome, because it's been quite a few years since I was last talking about what actually happened in Rome. However, I do need to mention at this point things that have been going on in Rome,

because it's been quite a few years since I was last talking about what actually happened in

Rome, and there's been all sorts that have gone on. When I go back to that, we will go back in time

and talk about everything that happened in Rome since Caesar's left, which is years ago,

years ago. And there's lots and lots of intrigues and important things,

interesting things, with Pompey and Krasas and Kato, and in some of the previous episodes,

which hopefully you've watched, you'll know a lot of those. We did episode, I did episodes on

Cato and Krasus already. But at this point, going into the year 52 BC, that's where we're talking about

Caesar is in Gaul, 52 BC, what's happened quite recently is the murder of Claudius. Now, I've already

got into that in a bit of detail, but when I cut back to Rome, we'll go into it in full detail

but you need to know about it here

because it matters

the death of Clodius

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