Cesar arrives in Gaul and embarks on a War of Conquest. Meanwhile in Rome, the irrepressible Clodius now Tribune of the Plebs takes charge, banishing Cicero and Cato from the city, recruiting a private gang and expanding the grain dole (the annonae) to the populace. He now turns his metaphorical guns against Pompey, attacking his Eastern settlements. The arrival of the deposed ruler of Egypt Ptolemy XII Auletes (the flute player) and Berenice IV, the current Queen's envoys brings their dynastic feud onto the streets of Rome with fatal consequences. Things are heating up!  

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Sources

Primary Sources

The Civil Wars - Appian (Penguin)

The Gallic Wars - Julius Caesar

 The Jugurthine Wars | The Catiline Conspiracy - Sallust (Penguin)

The Fall of the Roman Republic (Books 36-40) - Cassius Dio (Oxford Classics)

Lives of the Caesars (Julius Caesar) - Suetonius 

Lives of Cicero | Julius Caesar | Cato the Younger - Plutarch

Secondary Sources

Uncommon Wrath - Josiah Osgood

Before Augustus - Natale Barca 

Pompey the Great – Robin Seager

Caesar - Mattias Gelzer

Cato the Younger - Fred Drogula 

In the Name of Rome – Adrian Goldsworthy

The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome – Guy de la Bedoyere

Fiction

Caesar's Women - Colleen McCullough   

TV Series

Rome – 2005-6 (HBO)

iHeart Podcasts: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-your-attention-please-326046416/

OmnyStudio: https://omny.fm/shows/your-attention-please

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