Sam and Sara take on Pompey and Julius Caesar’s civil war: populist politics, Cicero’s foibles, the sluttification of a model Roman matron, respect for ancient doctors, and the drama (and nudity) of HBO’s Rome.

• Plutarch's Life of Caesar, 53.4 - An account of Julia's death in childbirth; the following sections cover the political turmoil and growing hostility between Pompey and Caesar in the late 50s BCE
• Roman trepanation - A technical explanation by Celsus, a Roman medical encyclopedist
• Ancient Peruvian trepanation
• Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus - Caesar's account of the two centurions, from his Commentary on the Gallic Wars, Bk. 5.44
• Life of Julius Caesar - English translation of the biography by the historian Suetonius