Caesar & the Pirates // Plutarch 75 AD // Roman Source

Podcast: History's Living Voices: The Past, Told by Those Who Lived It · HLV

Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

The beginnings of a legend. Uploaded 14-05-19 The year is 75 BC and Julius Caesar is not yet the mammoth figure he will become. Originally set to be a priest of Jupiter, he was stripped of his title and his inheritance after his family was involved in a bitter civil war, turning to work as a legal advocate in Rome to make his way. This story comes to us from Plutarch, who relates this early example of young Julius' remarkable confidence - almost verging on arrogance - in the face of very real...