Life Of Caesar

This episode is all about Sextus Pompey, aka Sexy P, how he held Italy to ransom and his eventual negotiations with the triumvirs.

The one where Octavian and Antony sit down to hash out their differences, forget to invite Lepidus and Salvidienus Rufus fucks up big time.

Well the tensions between Octavian and Mark Antony are heating up again in this episode. Only one thing stands between them – FOOFIKINS! Today’s episode is again brought to you by HILLSDALE COLLEGE and their free online course on WINSTON CHURCHILL. Get on that today!

Octavian pursues Lucius Antonius and traps him in the city of Perusia (modern Perugia) for several months. Lucius eventually surrenders, some people are forgiven, others are executed, and the entire city is burned to the ground. Today’s episode is again brought to you by HILLSDALE COLLEGE and their free online course on WINSTON CHURCHILL. Get […]

After the battle of Philippi, Antony went east to squeeze money out of various kings and just to squeeze Cleopatra, while poor Octavian got the shittiest job in Rome – taking land away from Italian citizens and giving it to retiring soldiers. This made him no friends. Was he set up to fail? And why […]

Here it is – and it’s a big one (that’s what she said). Four men enter – two men leave. The showdown to determine the fate of Rome. It’s the final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian (of the Second Triumvirate) and the forces of […]

The Triumvirs go on the offensive and prepare to engage Brutus and Cassius, and their massive army, in Macedonia. The triumvirs and the assassins control the two biggest armies Rome has ever produced, way bigger than any army that either Caesar or Pompey ever had – and they are mostly new recruits, with hardly a […]

LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS! Again! but this time… we’re a little worse for wear. On this episode we discuss more stories from the proscriptions but also delve deeply into the economics behind it, and discover that in a very brief period Rome found itself with a brand new class of nouveau riche – which changed […]

LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS! The first thing the Second Triumvirate did was a little bit of the ol’ mass murder aka THE PROSCRIPTIONS. One of the first people to meet their end was our ol’ mate Cicero.

On 19 August 43 BCE, Octavian was elected consul at the age of 19, ten months and 26 days. No-one so young had ever held the office. Decimus, Caesar’s friend, colleague and assassin, finally finds out karma’s a bitch. And then, the unbelievable happens – Octavian, Antony and Lepidus surprise everyone to create the Second Triumvirate.