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The Making of a Caesar | Guest: Furius Pertinax | 5/3/23

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The Assassination of Caesar

In his early days when he was becoming the Pontifist Maximus, or he's becoming consul, and he was as a popularist, you know, his constituency was the people in Rome. He never marched around with the bodyguard. He wasn't a person who sort of put a bridge between himself and the people. But there's also this conviction that Rome has fundamental problems and this side of politics is actually wanting to deal with it. And I think the popularies understand they're far more than the optimatists do.

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