Interview with Josiah Osgood on Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- The rivalry between Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger is one of the most intense in political history. Both were high-ranking figures of great gifts, but their personal feud was a powerful factor in the downfall of the Roman Republic.
Joining us in this episode to tell us more about Cato and Caesar’s contrasting characters and the dramatic historical events they lived through is the award-winning author and Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, Josiah Osgood.
Osgood takes us back to the year 46BC. Here we see Caesar at his peerless best on the battlefield and then, shortly afterwards, we analyse Cato’s shocking and defiant response.
The characters and stories that feature in this episode of Travels Through Time form part of Osgood’s latest book. Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic is out now.
Show notes
Scene One: April 6, 46 BC, the Battle of Thapsus, North Africa.
Scene Two: April 10, 46 BC, Utica, North Africa: Cato’s suicide.
Scene Three: September, 46 BC, Rome, Caesar’s Egyptian triumph.
Memento: The sign that was paraded through the streets of Rome during Caesar’s Asia Minor Triumph with the words ‘Veni, vidi, vici’.
People/Social
Presenter: Peter Moore
Guest: Josiah Osgood
Production: Maria Nolan
Podcast partner: Ace Cultural Tours
Theme music: ‘Love Token’ from the album ‘This Is Us’ By Slava and Leonard Grigoryan
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I really enjoyed this interview and learned a lot. Thanks!
Thank you!
God preserve us from Uncompromising principal, idealism, austerity, prigishness, narcissism and charisma; they equal disaster. Give us compromise, pragmatism and survival!
Caesar the narcissistic imperialistic populist, and Cato the fanatically stoic optimate. Talk about dropping a chunk of Caesar's sodium metal into Cato's cheap wine. Bottoms up!
If memory serves, Cicero lent two hands to help end the ensuing power struggle.
Cato was as bad as his great grandfather. A man you just want to punch!
Cato iuniore delenda est'