The Years of 51 BC/E to 10 January 49 BC/E were some of the most critical of the Roman Republic. Caesar is due to return from Gaul, Cato eagerly await this homecoming so they can haul him off to court for innumerable illegalities. Despite this Caesar has some cards to play to avoid that bleak future. will that be enough to safeguard his achievements, his person, his dignitas (the esteem he holds in eyes of his fellow Romans)? The answer will be the difference between a political war and a military war.

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Opening Reading - Appian, The Civil Wars Book II.31 

Sources

Primary Sources

The Civil Wars - Appian (Penguins)

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 

Lawless Republic - Josiah Osgood

In the Name of Rome – Adrian Goldsworthy

Fiction

Caesar's Women - Colleen McCullough 

Caesar - Colleen McCullough 

Cicero Trilogy (Imperium, Lustrum, Dictator) - Robert Harris

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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