{"id":91206,"date":"2024-12-27T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91206"},"modified":"2024-10-01T20:56:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:56:27","slug":"the-first-triumvirate-the-conquered-and-the-proud-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/27\/the-first-triumvirate-the-conquered-and-the-proud-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Triumvirate &#8211; The Conquered and the Proud 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CkcSai4k4Q?si=1oPJnN7YawkeVQEB\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 10, 2024<\/p>\n<p>This time we take a look at the Fifties BC, the formation of the first triumvirate, Caesar&#8217;s consulship, Clodius and Milo&#8217;s organised violence, Caesar in Gaul, Crassus in Syria and Parthia. The context is conquest and Roman success abroad with spiralling chaos at home. A big theme is the build-up to the Civil War and Caesar crossing the Rubicon in January 49 BC. We end with a quick run through the campaigns of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Primary sources include Caesar&#8217;s <em>War Commentaries<\/em>, Cicero&#8217;s letters and speeches, Plutarch&#8217;s <em>Lives<\/em>, Appian&#8217;s <em>Civil War<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published Jul 10, 2024 This time we take a look at the Fifties BC, the formation of the first triumvirate, Caesar&#8217;s consulship, Clodius and Milo&#8217;s organised violence, Caesar in Gaul, Crassus in Syria and Parthia. The context is conquest and Roman success abroad with spiralling chaos at home. A big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,5],"tags":[1566,650,1564,1111,1565,1345,553],"class_list":["post-91206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-civilwar","tag-crassus","tag-juliuscaesar","tag-pompey","tag-romanrepublic","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nJ4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91207,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91206\/revisions\/91207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}