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A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good.

In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men’s toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war.

Deeply researched and compellingly told, Uncommon Wrath is a groundbreaking biography of two men whose hatred for each other destroyed the world they loved.

ISBN-13: 9781541620117

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 11-29-2022

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 5.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

Josiah Osgood is professor of classics at Georgetown University and holds a PhD from Yale University. A winner of the Rome Prize, he is the author of five books on Roman history and the translator and editor of How to Be a Bad Emperor, a 2020 edition of Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars. He lives in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Two Men of Extraordinary Excellence" 1

Chapter 1 Coming of Age in Civil War 15

Chapter 2 Making Names for Themselves 37

Chapter 3 Political Ambitions 59

Chapter 4 The Conspiracy of Catiline 79

Chapter 5 Showdown in the Forum 101

Chapter 6 Divorces and Marriages 117

Chapter 7 The Consulship of Julius and Caesar 135

Chapter 8 Cato's Triumph 153

Chapter 9 Gaul 169

Chapter 10 Cato's Medicines 191

Chapter 11 Civil War 211

Chapter 12 "Even a Victor" 233

Chapter 13 Anticato 253

Chapter 14 Requiem for a Republic 271

Acknowledgments 285

A Note on Sources 289

Notes 297

Index 329