Cato the Younger Part VI | Cato Prosecutes Everyone, Julia Dies, Cato Runs For The Consulship

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Cato wins the praetorship and tries to convict as many triumvirate supporters as possible. Julius Caesar's daughter, Pompey's beloved wife, Julia dies. Some say her death marks the end of the triumvirate, but does it really? Cato runs for the consulship and says that he's doing it for the people, but is that the case?
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Cato The Younger, Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic by Fred K. Drogula
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@Carelock Ай бұрын

This is great work!!!

@Unhacker Жыл бұрын

I love this whole series, thanks for making these!

@DanCostaAcademicus Жыл бұрын

Np!

@dmann4903 3 жыл бұрын

I know you had mentioned a video on Pompey Magnus but would you consider creating one on sulla? i find him to be single handedly the most fascinating person i have ever read about. 1. Born a patrician but a dirt poor one. Spend his youth hanging with actors, Gladiators, and prostitutes. 2. On his first campaign he went behind enemy lines and kidnapped king Jugurtha, singlehandedly winning the war. 3. Spent a few years with sertorius spying on the migrating germans. 4. Negotiated the first treaty between rome and the Parthians. 5. Wins the social war as well as the freaking GRASS CROWN 6. Elected consul, has command stripped from him by Marius and a tribune of the plebs. 7. First man in history to mark on rome. 8. Once he had his campaign confirmed he sailed for Greece and won two crushing battle against Mithridates the Great at something like 4. to 1 odds. 9. Sales back to Italy, fights and defeats several armies sent after him including one that just straight up deserted to his side. 10. Wins battle of the Colline Gate 11. Names Dictator for Life 12. Resigned from Dictator 13. INvites his former street friends to come party with him until he passes. 14. Dies in his sleep but left an epitaph- No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full - Sulla

@dmann4903 3 жыл бұрын

Also never lost a battle.

@DanCostaAcademicus 3 жыл бұрын

Sulla is definitely on my list. I plan on covering all aspects of the Republic, but idk when I would do a video/series on Sulla. My current roadmap is finishing the Cato series, doing a video/mini series on the First Punic War (which is what that teaser vid I released is) and most likely Pompey, but that is still up in the air. I could do Sulla, but I can't make any promises. Although, Sulla does sound like someone I could do relatively soon (soon as in not too far down the road, perhaps, after Pompey). He's definitely someone that is on my mind. If I do Pompey, I will still have to discuss Pompey's role with Sulla just like I had to discuss The Social War with Cato the Younger in Part I.

@dmann4903 3 жыл бұрын

@@DanCostaAcademicus Thanks for the heads up! Yeah, Ive been reading everything I can find on him as i find him so utterly fascinating. I also think that history has treated him unfairly. Hes largely been labelled as a villain but i think he is someone who truly thought what he was doing was best for rome. Therefore, he shouldnt be a villain but be considered as someone who is morally grey?

@sk8trryan1997 2 жыл бұрын

@@DanCostaAcademicus i second this, sulla is usually neglected and I think there’s a book or a movie there waiting to be written. Marius and sulla super important

@BlackMasterRoshi 2 жыл бұрын

i second this

@dmann4903 3 жыл бұрын

I see youre a man of your word!

@DanCostaAcademicus 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy!

@DanCostaAcademicus 3 жыл бұрын

You might hear birds chirping at some points in the video. I had to shut my door so the mic wouldn't pick up the AC, but because it's so hot out I had to open the window, sorry.

@Unhacker Жыл бұрын

We thought it was sound effects ;)