Episode 45. Julius Caesar: The Man and the Road to Power
Sources and HistoriographyCaesar is the most thoroughly documented figure of the late Republic, and the documentation presents a specific problem: much of it is his own. The Commentarii de Bello Galli...
22 Mai 33min
Episode 44. Cato the Younger: The Man Caesar Could Not Reach
Sources and HistoriographyThe primary source for Cato's life is Plutarch's Life of Cato the Younger, which is among the most carefully constructed Lives in the collection. Plutarch pairs him with Phoc...
22 Mai 45min
Episode 43. Cicero and the Republic in Crisis: The Man Who Understood Everything and Could Not Stop Anything
Sources and HistoriographyCicero is the most extensively documented figure of the ancient world after Augustus. The primary source challenge is not scarcity but selection: the sheer volume of the surv...
15 Mai 38min
Episode 42. Pompey the Great, Part Two: The World in His Hands
Sources and HistoriographyThe primary source for Pompey's life is Plutarch's Life of Pompey, paired with Agesilaus of Sparta. For the period covered in this episode, the Life is at its most careful an...
15 Mai 54min
Episode 41. Pompey the Great, Part One: Outside Every Precedent
Sources and HistoriographyThe primary source for Pompey's life is Plutarch's Life of Pompey, which forms one of the Parallel Lives paired with Agesilaus of Sparta. Plutarch is sympathetic to Pompey—he...
7 Mai 39min
Episode 40. Lucullus and the Eastern Wars: The General Who Won Everything and Lost His Command
Sources and HistoriographyPlutarch's Life of Lucullus is the primary source, paired in the Parallel Lives with Cimon of Athens. It is one of Plutarch's more structurally interesting Lives because the ...
7 Mai 39min
Episode 39. Carrhae and Parthia: Rome Meets Its Match in the East
Sources and HistoriographyPlutarch's Life of Crassus is the primary narrative source and the most detailed account of the battle. Plutarch's account has been criticized for placing too much blame on C...
1 Mai 30min
Episode 38. Crassus: Wealth, Power, and the Hunger for Glory
Sources and HistoriographyPlutarch's Life of Crassus is the primary source and it is, as the arc plan noted, as much a study in the psychology of ambition as a political biography. Plutarch structures...
1 Mai 26min
