HBO's Rome: Caesar and Pompey

Sam and Sara take on Pompey and Julius Caesar’s civil war: populist politics, Cicero’s foibles, the sluttification of a model Roman matron, respect for ancient doctors, and the drama (and nudity) of HBO’s Rome.Plutarch's Life of Caesar, 53.4 - An account of Julia's death in childbirth; the following sections cover the political turmoil and growing hostility between Pompey and Caesar in the late 50s BCERoman trepanation - A technical explanation by Celsus, a Roman medical encyclopedistAncient Peruvian trepanationTitus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus - Caesar's account of the two centurions, from his Commentary on the Gallic Wars, Bk. 5.44Life of Julius Caesar - English translation of the biography by the historian Suetonius

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