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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of Epox, where once again I shall be continuing my story of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic. |
0:07.0 | Last time, if you remember, I finished up more or less my story of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, |
0:14.0 | and as promised, I said, I'll go back a fair few years and tell you what happened in Rome during all that time, |
0:19.0 | and the story of Pompey, this mini-series, |
0:22.9 | although it's not that small of a series, is it? |
0:24.6 | This mini-series is supposed to be about both Caesar and Pompey, because their lives and careers |
0:28.7 | are so heavily entwined. |
0:30.5 | So let's go back to Rome in the 60s, BC, and talk about what happened with Pompey. |
0:37.5 | Okay, today I'll be reading from Appian and Plutarch. |
0:41.5 | And also, if you've watched them, I have already done episodes on Krasis and Cato. |
0:47.4 | So it shall be covering some of the same ground again, but from a slightly different angle, perhaps. |
0:53.0 | So let's pick up with Appian, more or less |
0:55.8 | when Caesar leaves Rome for his French campaigns. So Appian tells us this, quote, |
1:02.6 | Caesar realized that his absence from Rome would be prolonged and that the resentment felt |
1:07.0 | towards him would be all the greater because of the enormous favours he granted. See now, Caesar knows that the election he had just before he left Rome to become Consul, |
1:17.6 | and when Pompey and Crassus formed the first Triumvir in secret, though it wasn't all that secret, |
1:22.6 | Cato cottoned onto it pretty quickly. Either way, he knows that that, plus the election he had before |
1:28.2 | that to become Pontifex Maximus, he knows that once he leaves office and he no longer has |
1:33.2 | immunity from prosecution, he knows that he's going to be prosecuted for all sorts of things. |
1:38.5 | So he knows he's sort of on borrowed time, that is unless he can keep a string of offices going. |
1:43.6 | But he knows that Cato and all of Cato's people, |
1:46.7 | his faction, they will try and get him. So he's got a few years to try and untangle all of that |
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