{"id":16291,"date":"2012-10-29T05:21:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16291"},"modified":"2012-10-29T05:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T05:21:58","slug":"new-book-romes-last-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16291","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Rome’s Last Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar<\/a><\/strong> by Rob Goodman<\/a><\/strong> and Jimmy Soni<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just picked this up, a biography of the Roman Republic’s<\/strong> most dogged defender whose fanatical inflexibility played a large part in it’s ruin, Cato the Younger<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Caesar<\/strong> did not fear Cato’s generalship. Nor his rhetoric. Caesar feared his auctoritas<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Cato committed suicide for that reason, so it would never be compromised for all posterity, unlike Cicero<\/strong> or Brutus<\/strong>, Cato’s son-in-law and assassin of Julius Caesar, who had both surrendered and collaborated with Caesar’s new regime.<\/p>\n

Unlike some of the other ancient history books I have reviewed, the authors are not classicists like Adrian Goldsworthy<\/strong> but pundits at The Huffington Post<\/strong><\/em> and various media outlets. I’m interested to see where they go with this, being non-specialists.<\/p>\n

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Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni\u00a0 Just picked this up, a biography of the Roman Republic’s most dogged defender whose fanatical inflexibility played a large part in it’s ruin, Cato the Younger. Caesar did not fear Cato’s generalship. Nor his rhetoric. Caesar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,420,133,51,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-book","category-history","category-roman-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}