Barry Strauss

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592 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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I mean, one of the great scholars of Rome, Eric Gruen, argues that the Republic could have survived just fine.

It was assassinated.

You know, it did not commit suicide.

It was assassinated and it could have gone on.

I think it could have gone on, but only if it had been willing to make compromises with reality.

And in the end, it wasn't willing to make those compromises with reality.

In fairness, it was really being pushed to the limit by Pompey and Caesar.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And so it's unclear how they're going to solve this problem.

And in the end, led by Cato...

They say, we're going to solve this problem by going for the jugular.

We're going to get Caesar.

You know, we're going to strip him of his command and gall.

We're going to put him on trial.

And he's going to be condemned to death.

So what he's going to do is he's going to go into exile.

And that'll be the end of him, end of problem.

And then things can all go back to normal.

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