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In April of 56 BC, Julius Caesar met Marcus Licinius Crassus at Ravenna and Pompey the Great at Luca, modern Lucca in Tuscany, and the three men renewed the First Triumvirate by dividing up Rome's consulships and armies for the next five years.
By the spring of 56 the alliance was close to breaking. Publius Clodius Pulcher's street gangs had made Pompey afr...
Julius Caesar broke the Roman Republic years before he crossed the Rubicon, and this episode follows how he did it, from his birth in 100 BC through the consulship of 59 BC and the conquest of Gaul to the deadline of 50 BC.
Caesar came from one of Rome's oldest patrician families and had almost no money. He survived Sulla's proscriptions after refusing to divorc...
Pompey could have been Caesar. He chose the Republic, and the Republic destroyed him. Every structural ingredient Caesar would later use to end the Roman Republic, Pompey had first. He refused to use them. That refusal is what killed him.
In 62 BC, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus landed at Brindisium with the largest Roman army any general had commanded in a generat...
The Roman Republic didn't collapse because one man grew too powerful. It collapsed because the offices themselves acquired a market price, and everyone kept showing up to work.
In this episode we walk the decade between Sulla's abdication and the First Triumvirate: the years Crassus built his fortune out of proscriptions and fire brigades, Pompey extorted a...