Join us in Austin for the Cost of Glory Men's Retreat. January 23-26. Theme: Caesar https://costofglory.com/retreat

Thanks Reid Powers - who sponsors this episode in honor of his father, the late Bill Powers, past president of UT Austin.

Episode 1 of the Life of Cato the Younger, Rome's great Stoic statesman.

In this episode:

• Cato's earliest years and the murder of his uncle
• His first encounter with Sulla as a precocious youth
• Cato establishes his reputation: in military service and as Quaestor
• A Principled stand against Julius Caesar

On this centennial episode, I'd like to thank all of my listeners and patrons. On to the next hundred!

Join us in Austin for the Cost of Glory Men's Retreat. January 23-26. Theme: Caesar https://costofglory.com/retreat

How to make progress, and know it. Featuring a few of Plutarch's critiques of some Stoics of his day - whether fairly or unfairly, you can decide.

Also featuring: Diogenes the Cynic, Aeschylus the Poet, Brasidas the Spartan Commander.

Also featuring: ZEAL

Caesar ties all loose ends in his Gallic Campaign, in part 8, the final episode of our series on Caesar’s masterwork of psychology, strategy, and propaganda: On the Gallic War (De Bello Gallico).

This is a world-history making story (the conquest of what’s now modern France), told by a world-history making storyteller.

Caesar entered Gaul as a mere politician. He returned 9 years later as a conqueror - and an enemy of the state. He tells how it all happened with his own pen.

In this episode:

• Final skirmishes with the Bituriges and the Carnutes
• Siege of a hill-fort, and Caesar takes arms (literally)
• Conclusion of a bloody chapter, and some takeaways

Cost of Glory is an Infinite Media production — and big thanks to Dr. Richard Johnson of the great city of New York for sponsoring this episode and many others in this series!

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See my favorite, Sertorius Roast - co-designed by yours truly.
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