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Professor Josiah Osgood on Cato, Caesar and the Battle for Rome's Legacy
The Daily Stoic
Kato - Is He a Political Prisoner?
Kato is effectively presenting Caesar with a moral quandary for which there is no good solution. Kato alive is a political prisoner that Kato can use or he's someone that Caesar can be merciful towards and undermine the fundamentally cruel and violent act that he has just done. It actually goes back to the point about this sort of enabling, right? And would Kato, any kind of cooperation from his point of view, would have risked that? The other thing I'd say about it is as awful as it is, right? It is sort of setting up an icon for posterity.
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