The Life Of Cato The Younger Part I
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Salvete Omnes! Here is part one of the life of Cato the Younger. Hope you enjoy!
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Plutarch Life of Cato the Younger penelope.uchica...
Sallust The Conspiracy of Catiline
Cicero Orations In Catilinam 1-4, Pro Murena, Pro Sulla, Pro Flacco
Secondary Sources:
Cicero and the Roman Republic by F. R. Cowell
Cato the Younger Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic by Fred K. Drogula
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I swear I've been looking for this for so long bro 😭 love u I'm subbing.. And Cato isn't an equal to caesar. He is a million times a better man. He just wanted freedom over tyranny and didn't crave power which is why he was forgotten..
Outstanding video! I'll be watching every part of this series.
Thanks Cato
History long has been captivated by the pomp and flare of men like Caesar, and Pompey.
Men of action who have carved their names in the stone through their success, which on paper was written in blood.
And are remembered are celebrated for the oppressions they committed, payed for with the lives of their country men for their own elevation in aggrandizement.
Though there is something immensely enjoyable in these cut throat, powerful personalities whom are politically, and militarily savey.
The more honourable man whom I wish to emulate, is the bold who walks unflinching in the lions jaws, the moral man, who represents his people, who walks a mile in their shoes, the man who respects principle and tradition.
Cato is the type of man we should see more of in the world, and one in which we can learn more from.
Well said!
I am half way through this and it is amazing, to me at least. History should be told from a version other the war most the time. Is there a podcast audio version so I can hear this at the gym.
I'm afraid not, the only way currently to work those muscles to Cato the Younger would be to buy UA-cam Red, so that the video can play while your phone is locked. You could always just play it and never exit out of youtube and just stick your phone in your pocket. But, I'm glad you enjoyed the video, I agree history is more than just wars and battles!
Thank you for this video - I have my Politics of the Late Republic Exam in a few days and this video sums up my entire course 😀🙂
I’m glad I stumbled onto this, can’t wait to see what else you cover.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I have plans to cover some major topics this spring/summer, stay tuned!
Thank you for this!!!
Really liked this video. Thanks for creating it.
Np, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
By the way Cato wrote a treatise against the existence of slavery saying that anybody living under the governance of any group of people must be able to vote.. You kinda misrepresent him by just saying hes a "hardline traditionalist conservative"
Awesome man! I see your three comments so I will reply to them here in order 1) Np man, I'm glad you enjoyed this! 2) Obviously you are allowed to favor Cato more than Caesar, but I think what Sallust was trying to say was that Cato and Caesar were equals in terms of ability, just on opposite ends of the spectrum. And yeah, it is a shame Cato often gets forgotten in terms of todays scholarly works. When he died he was pretty much immediately "deified" so to speak. Cicero and Brutus both wrote about him. I believe they're lost however. 3) I did not know that Cato wrote such a treatise, but if he did I'm almost positive it's lost. Pretty much nothing of Cato has survived besides a letter written to Cicero (which I will discuss). I don't think that I misrepresent Cato as a "Hardline traditionalist conservative" Althought I wouldn't characterize him as such (He was a mix between Stoicism and Traditional Roman Conservatism), but he was definitely conservative and by that I mean that he undoubtedly 100% wanted the Senate and its institutions to remain as it was. You will see this with his hard stance against popularist senators such as Pompey, Crassus, and most definitely Caesar. My point, however, of showing him in this light is just to provide a bigger picture of his actions, which reflect his beliefs. On the topic of Slavery, many Romans of Cato's day were much more lenient in terms of how they dealt with their slaves compared to Cato the Elders approach (which even then was extreme). We have letters from Cicero telling his best friend Atticus to take it easy on his slaves. I hope this clarifies, if not feel free to ask me a question!
@@DanCostaAcademicus Yes I'm not sure if it was a treatise or an oration, but there was a compilation of his attributed sayings.. Mostly kinda boring very detailed work about logistics and the treasury,and at some point he discusses a necessary sovereignty equally distributed among all men because wisdom is equally distributed and so on.. And he spoke about how rich men should fight against luxury for this purpose. But Yeah ur right he was def a conservative in that sense but I dont know about him being some harsh slave master lol.. He may have been tasked with the logistics of some bodies estate I dont know 🤷♂️ But you probably answer all my questions in the rest of the videos so let me just watch it all before I talk lol 😂 Thanks for doing this though
@@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 Oh yeah thats definitely a stoic value (men being equal) and reflects actually Cato the Elder on his approach towards luxury (Cato the Elder hated Hellenism and the luxury it brought to Rome). Cato does have moments in his life where he does logisitcal matters, such as his quaestorship and overseeing the assets of the newly acquired kingdom of Cyprus (The King of Egypts brother) which I will talk about. There is a moment towards the end of Cato's life when he goes into a passionate speech about freedom, but I dont want to spoil it (It will be in the last part of the life of Cato). But I'm happy that you're excited about Cato. And feel free to criticize me if you feel I misrepresented him!
*Care to elaborate or give a citation as to where Cato the Younger or Elder wrote anything against Slavery??* The Elder owned Dozens of Slaves, and the Younger owned 15 Slaves from a young age - so it would seem *extremely hypocritical* of them to be claim to be against Slavery... Lol
@@dionysus1917 First of all let's be clear that the slave treatment you're talking about is of his grandfather. And the household slaves you mentioned "he had" as a child, you realize he was fostered because his father was killed in the Sula civil wars? You understand also that a person's principles cant necessarily manifest themselves in the context of their society? And that's actually why they fought another war.. So no you are wrong about him being a slave owner lol.
Keep up good work. Looking forward to the 2nd part. Cheers.
Thanks! Part II will be coming out sometime soon.
Quality content
Thank you!
so in short Cato was not a simp
The Moral of Cato’s story, a man who stood against all, was that he was not simp. So inspiring 😭😭😭
Cato the younger was an amazing man. Past ages thought much more of him than do we....
Which Marcus Cato are you, his second cousin?
@@DanCostaAcademicus lol, I forgot that was my name. Nope, just one of my personal role models.
@@marcuscato3599 Lol right on man! I hope you enjoy the series, the next two parts, 6 & 7 are going to be especially good!
@@DanCostaAcademicus Awesome. Keep up the great work!
Only 7 acres? Now we live like rats in over crowded urban ghettos.
Speak for yourself…
Cato was a great inspiration to George Washington.
Interesting, I did not know that! I only known about Cincinnatus
My favorite roman
👍👍👍
Cato was a Man of the People who fought agains Tiranny and abuse of Power and put himself in the place of the down trod and Humble .He was an excellent orator and apparently very buff .He tried to live his Life according to the Mos Maiorem and follow the Traditions of his Ancestors .But I do not love him for succeeding , for that is not what History would give him .I love him for trying , for going against a great tide that he saw as wrong .I pray my nation , descended from his , can emulate him .
I believe he would have been a Christian , had he been born some 120 years later .
He most definitely wouldn't be a Christian, Christianity embodies everything he standed against
@@TheWeedmonkey123
He stood for ethical consistency .
"standed"
He would have STOOD against you , clearly .
@@oolooo sure you're right :)
@@TheWeedmonkey123
I am , honey
His entire existance was devoted to keeping the status quo and the priviledges of the senate, he was anything but a man of the people. He was an oligarch working very hard to keep his failing oligarchy afloat.
5:42 Sorry but the term 'Italians' is very inaccurate. There were no 'Italians' in Rome's ancient times. Maybe you meant 'Italics'?
Aside the Romans/Latins, there were five main ethnicities/cultures in Italy at the time of the Roman Republic: the Italics (Equi, Samnites, etc ), the Gauls (across part of N-Italy), the Greeks of Magna Graecia (in S-Italy), the Etruscans, plus the pre-Gallic communities of N-Italy (such as the Veneti, the Ligurians, etc). None of them considered themselves 'Italian', and in fact in Latin that word did not even exist!
A mistake in the introductory Latin quotation, followed by a mistake in its translation, does not bode well...........
There is no mistake, unless you mean it is not the exact quote from Lucans Civil War/Pharsalia. That I know/knew while making the video