You know you want to do it.  But how?  Plutarch offers a few key examples.

Highlights from Rome's Deadliest Conspiracy, the Catilinarian conspiracy.

Featuring speeches by Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger.

Get into one of the great moments of history - highlights from Cicero's speech Against Catiline.  Featuring a quote or two from the original Latin.

The Conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic at the height of its power.  Catiline and his associates challenge Cicero and Cato. 

Rumors were that Crassus and Caesar were involved... 

Part I: Highlights from Sallust's War with Catiline.

ANNOUNCING - New Megaseries:  Visions of Caesar.  I am beginning an arc on the biographies of all the most prominent of the era of Caesar, including The Man himself.  Crassus, Pompey, Cato, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony.

The Greatest hero of all, Hercules - told by Seneca: Billionaire, Politician, Stoic Philosopher, and... Tragic Playwright.

Highlights and power quotes from Seneca's "The Madness of Hercules":  
in a new, brilliant, poetic translation by one of America's great poets, Dana Gioia

Get a copy here: https://amzn.to/42TEUqJ
(and support the show thereby)

More about Dana Gioia and his work here:
https://danagioia.com/

The Finale: Xenophon's Anabasis, book 7 of 7.  Highlights for the High Life. 

In this episode:

-Sailing to Byzantium 
-How to Tame a Mob 
-Spartan Indecision
-Drinking more wine from big horns with dangerous men 
-Raiding with Thracians 
-Fire attack at night 
-How to lose a good friend for good 
-What all gyms should aspire to be like 
-The importance of keeping your horse 

Highlights from Book 6 of Xenophon's Anabasis

In this episode:
-Drinking parties, War Dances 
-Why every modern gentleman should sacrifice to the gods
-How to gracefully decline a promotion 
-Hercules in Hell
-On keeping the Fellowship together
-Isolated sheep rustling incident threatens to start an international war 
-The value of a cool head 

Xenophon, Anabasis 5.  #1 Highlights for Life Success.  In this episode:

-Fending off chaos in all its forms
-Dealing with a power vacuum
-The Source of the Golden Fleece
-The BEST way to spend Sacred Funds (Hint: Real Estate)
-Artemis and her 7 wonders Temple at Ephesus (cult statue here)
-Sampling Local Delicacies (as always) 
-Pale white children as wide as they are tall
-Dreams of city founding
-The metaphysical basis of international law
-Xenophon, hubris, and soldier punching

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Top 4 takeaways from the life of Agesilaus. 

Also, further reading:

Plutarch, "On Sparta":
https://amzn.to/3Ni3RaO

-Cornelius Nepos, Lives of the Great Commanders (trans. Quintus Curtius):
https://amzn.to/3AtrqpO

-Xenophon, Hellenica:
https://amzn.to/41YXmOx

-Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire (historical novel):
https://amzn.to/3V0gCsH

-Paul Cartledge, Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta:
https://amzn.to/3L3Wj9d

-John Buckler, Theban Hegemony:
https://amzn.to/3Lonc98

-James Romm, The Sacred Band:
https://amzn.to/3L1WoKA

-Charles Hamilton, Agesilaus and the Failure of Spartan Hegemony: https://amzn.to/3oDn38P

How to Take Over the World Podcast: Philip of Macedon

Agesilaus, old King of Sparta, faces his final enemy, and greatest foe of all: the Theban commander Epaminondas.

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Key People: 
Agesilaus, king of Sparta 
Demaratus, king of Sparta 
Artaxerxes, King of Persia 
Epaminondas, Theban Statesman 
Pelopidas, Theban Statesman 
Antalcidas 
Xenophon, the Philosopher-warrior 
Gryllus, son of Xenophon 
Nectanebo, Pharaoh of Egypt 
Menelaus, king of Sparta 

Key Places: 
Sparta 
Thebes 
Leuctra 
Athens 
Corinth 
Arcadia 
Mantinea 
Tegea 
Elis 
Achaea 
Mt. Taygetos 
Eurotas River 
Messenia 
Kalamata 
Messene 
Mt. Ithome 
Pamisos River / Valley 
Megalopolis 
Olympia 
Egypt