Ancient Stories History Podcast · Johan Ericsson
Julius Caesar: The Man Who Shaped Rome
·17 min·1 clip
With just one legion, Julius Caesar chose defiance by crossing the Rubicon River, a bold gamble that altered Roman history forever.
As heard by us
A brisk Caesar overview that treats the Rubicon as the hinge point of his rise and Rome's civil war.
This episode tracks Julius Caesar from his rise in Rome to the crossing of the Rubicon, where ambition stops being abstract and becomes a direct challenge to the Roman Republic.
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You want Caesar's rise framed as the moment Rome stopped having a way back, politically and personally.
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