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YAP Radio Show - Caesar vs. Cato 15: Aftermaths and Afterlives_2026-09-15

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Caesar arrives at Utica to find Cato has taken his life. He now continues to Spain for a final battle against Republican forces at Munda. After extravagant triumphs, Caesar settles into governing as Dictator but a opposition to his rule looms. This episode will look into the aftermath and the afterlives of both our antagonists as their mortality is revealed. 

 

Sources 

Primary Sources

The Civil Wars - Appian (Penguins)

The Gallic War - Julius Caesar (Folio Society) trans. S.A Handford and Jane F. Gardner

The Civil War – Julius Caesar (Oxford Classics) trans. John Carter

 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 trans. Rex Warner

Pharsalia – Lucan

Secondary Sources

Uncommon Wrath - Josiah Osgood

Before Augustus - Natale Barca 

Pompey the Great – Robin Seager

Caesar - Mattias Gelzer

Julius Caesar and the Roman People – Robert Morstein-Marx

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

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

Caesar's Women - Colleen McCullough   

TV Series

Rome – 2005-6 (HBO)

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