The year is now 60 B.C.E. Caesar *finally* achieves his goal of becoming Consul. He forms the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus. His co-consul, Bibulus, gets a bucket of poo tipped over him and goes home (true!). All this and more on today’s episode of the Julius Caesar.
In 1898 the ancient Etruscan town of Vetulonia was unearthed and this iron fasces discovered. It seems they were first introduced into Rome by King Tarquinius Priscus, who was of Etruscan origin.
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Corrected on pronunciations by the wickedest upward inflection ever!
Just finished listen to this episode (I’ll be writing a longer review once I finish all the episodes). You said that Julia was engaged to Servilia’s father (before the engagement was broken off and she married Pompey), but that is not correct. Servilia’s father was long dead by that point.
To add… Quintus Servilius Caepio (to whom Julia was engaged) was most likely Sevilia’s brother (their father was long dead). Even though Pompey offered Caepio to marry his daughter Pompeia Magna (who was engaged to Faustus Sulla), it never happened. Pompeia still married Faustus. And Caepio married Hortensius’s daughter.