Free Download Civil War in the Roman Republic, 106 to 44BCE: A Time of Great Civil, Military and Political Strife that Mirrors Our Own (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868617201 | 2023 | 4 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Cicero, Cato The Younger, Catiline, Mark Antony, Caius Memmius, Julius Caesar, Caius Marius
Narrator: Charles Featherstone
The late republic (from about 133BCE) was characterized by civil discontent, with three Servile Wars, two attempted coups, a Social War between Rome and Italian allies, and endless conflict. We begin in 110-106BCE with two speeches railing against the fixed social order and corruption of the highborn, as well as the scorn poured on those of lower birth. We then jump to the Cataline Conspiracy in 63 BCE, an attempt to overthrow the Senate that was only defeated at great cost, and continued to be a symbol of Rome’s troubles. Here we see Cataline exhorting his troops, Cato arguing for harsh punishment, C icero calling Cataline every contemptible name under the sun, and the only known speech of Julius Caesar, in which he argues for a sensible and jurisprudential response to this great crime.
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