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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