Life Of Caesar

By Cameron Reilly & Ray HarrisHistory

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December 19, 2015 Life Of Augustus – #09 – Cicero’s Fatal Mistake
Battles continue between Antony, Octavian and the consuls, Hirtius and Pansa. By the end of the episode, two of the four are dead. Decimus escapes from Mutina and is awarded a triumph back in Rome. HE’S ONE OF THE CAESAR’S ASSASSINS! Antony gets reinforcements. And Cicero makes his last fatal mistake by saying of Octavian: “laudanum aduluscentum, […]
1 hr 8 min
December 10, 2015 Augustus Caesar #08 – Robert Harris
Today we are joined by the one and only Robert Harris – author of many bestsellers, including FATHERLAND and his CICERO trilogy. The final chapter of the Cicero trilogy, DICTATOR, is available now. You can buy it as an audiobook from Audible. Get your free copy today by using our signup page!
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1 hr 4 min
December 04, 2015 Life Of Augustus – #07 – The Praetorian Guard
Hirtius, Octavian and Pansa march to Mutina to support Decimus and fight Antony. At the battle of Forum Gallorum, Octavian and Antony’s respective praetorian guards go at it mano-a-mano: Being veterans they raised no battle-cry, since they could not expect to terrify each other, nor in the engagement did they utter a sound, either as […]
1 hr
November 28, 2015 Life Of Augustus – #06 – Cicero’s Big Gamble
Cicero realises that the only way to stop Antony is for the Senate to align themselves with the young Caesar. He delivers his Third Philippic against Antony, praises Octavian and the Legio Martia, and convinces the Senate to make the 19 year old kid a Senator and the commander of the military of the Roman Senate. Can […]
1 hr 23 min
November 22, 2015 Augustus Caesar #05 – Another Civil War Begins
Shit gets real in this episode! Two of Mark Antony’s legions desert to Octavian and Antony finally confronts one of Caesar’s assassins with force – Decimus Brutus. There’s some ABBA and Public Enemy but at the end of this episode, we get serious (for once) and talk for a little while about the recent Paris attacks.
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1 hr 21 min
November 06, 2015 Life Of Augustus – #04 – Antony v Cicero
In this episode, Octavian throws a party, the Ludi Victoriae Caesaris, Antony is growing more powerful, Cicero delivers his First “Philippic”, Antony’s army from Macedonia starts arriving in Brundisium, Octavian tries to buy Antony’s men out from under him – and Octavian turns 19. Links: Spotify Playlist
1 hr 12 min
October 30, 2015 Life Of Augustus – #03 – The Featured Players
We discuss the other key players who are playing a role in Rome in 44/43 BCE – Marcus Antonius, Dolabella and Lepidus, Brutus and Cassius. There’s another civil war brewing – it smells like 49 BCE all over again. Links: Spotify Playlist
1 hr 18 min
October 23, 2015 Life Of Augustus – #02 – Going Rome
Octavius changes his name to Gaius Julius Caesar – but we call him Octavian so as not to confuse him with the other guy. He makes his way to Rome to meet with Mark Antony and get his cash – but it’s not going to plan. So he goes to visit Cicero near Naples, who also […]
1 hr 14 min
October 09, 2015 Augustus Caesar #01 – Introduction
On the 19th August, 14 CE, 767 years after the founding of Rome, nearly exactly 2001 years ago, the first Emperor of Rome, Augustus, finally died, at 75 years of age. His great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, the most brilliant and successful general in Rome’s history, had been assassinated aged 56 after being the […]
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1 hr 53 min
September 25, 2015 Julius Caesar #48 – The Aftermath, Part II
THIS IS THE END. SERIOUSLY THIS TIME. WE MEAN IT. We cover the events of March 18 – 20, 44 BCE. Brutus & Cassius invite the plebeians up to the Capitoline Hill and give another speech. The Senate votes to give Caesar a public funeral, to be held in the Forum on 18 March, and to a public reading of this will. Both are really, really bad ideas. They are probably thinking “hey we’ve killed the […]
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1 hr 25 min