R.W. Peake is back to talk about politics...Roman politics, and the Rise of the Demagogues in the late Republican period. 

After a hiatus, the Marching With Caesar podcast resumes with Episode 5, where author R.W. Peake talks about Roman currency. 

In this episode, he talks about how he became a collector of Roman coins and describes some of the coins in his collection, and their connection to the characters of the Marching With Caesar series. 

Also, he will discuss his recent research stemming from Marching With Caesar-Hostage to Fortuna and the intricacies of ancient commerce. 

In this, the fourth podcast of the Marching With Caesar series, Ron Peake talks about the value he derived from spending time in some of the locations that feature in the Marching With Caesar series, and how he used technology to conduct a virtual reconnaissance of several key battle sites those places he couldn't visit personally. 

He also discusses the value of a personal guide, and some of the things he learned from his extensive time spent in Rome and Croatia. 

In this episode, R.W. Peake talks about both Marching With Caesar and Caesar Ascending, where it's been and where they're headed, both in the near term and in his long term ambitions for both series. 

In addition, he will talk about some of the inspirations and influences for his work. 

In this episode, author R.W. Peake discusses the tactics and training of the Roman Legions, the sources he used for research and those maneuvers and tactics that are conjecture on his part, and how he arrived at his conclusions. 

This is the first podcast by R.W. Peake, the author of the international bestselling Roman historical fiction series Marching With Caesar, and the alternative history series Caesar Ascending. 

In this episode, the author answers the most common questions he gets from readers concerning his research into the Legions of Rome, how his experiences as a retired Marine impacts and colors his stories, and when he makes assumptions, such as the measurement of time, how he arrived at his conclusions. 

He also offers a brief insight into how he made the transition from a burned out software executive to bestselling author, including the mistakes and happy accidents that happened along the way.