Lore of the Founding- Julius Caesar
About this episode
The episode explores Julius Caesar's rise in Roman politics and the factors that led to the instability of the republic.
A republic can look stable right up until the moment it isn’t. We sit down with Joanna Kenti to trace how Julius Caesar rises through Roman politics, builds personal loyalty through war, and finally dares the republic to stop him. Along the way, we unpack the real-world pressures behind the legend: dispossessed farmers, bitter factional conflict, escalating political violence, and the way “temporary” exceptions to the rules start to feel normal. We walk through the First Triumvirate, the Gal...
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