Our second guest on the Consul series is Jamie Redfern, history podcaster! You might know Jamie from his acclaimed “The History Of” podcasts, including “The History of Alexander”, “The History of Hannibal” or “The History of the Arab Spring”, among others. He’s also a Latin tutor!
He is NOT – repeat NOT – this guy:
Although we all wish he was. Aussies know what I’m talking about.
We had a long and rambling conversation with Jamie about Caesar and Cicero.
Cicero ‘courageously’ rejected Caesar’s advances, knowing that Caesar was not vindictive. Pompey considered Cicero a whiny annoyance. Clodius exposed the character of Cicero, a talker, not a doer.