Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours
Cost of Glory
38 episodes indexed · 45 hours
Presented by Alex Petkas
Petkas taught ancient philosophy and history at university and left to make this. He works from Plutarch's Parallel Lives and retells them at full length, which is the whole point: Plutarch wrote biography as a study of character under pressure, and that survives only at length. Greek and Roman both, so 38 Roman episodes are indexed here. The multi-part Caesar sequence is the fullest treatment of him in audio outside the big narrative series.
Where to start. The Caesar sequence, or any life you already half know. Marius 1: Ambition · 68 min
I feel like…
ThinkingAny
Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
FeelingAny
Sentire, what was lived and endured
DoingAny
Facere, what hands made and did
PeriodAny
when it happens
LengthAny
how much time you have
All 38 episodes, in order. Every title links straight to the episode.
- Sertorius 2: Crisis in Rome57m
- Marius 1: Ambition1h 08m
- Marius 2: Third Founder of Rome1h 14m
- Marius 3: The Ruin of Cities1h 30m
- Marius Aftermath and Takeaways16m
- Comparison - Pyrrhus and Marius19m
- Sulla 1: The Lucky1h 07m
- Sulla 2: Rogue Commander1h 09m
- Sulla III: Vengeance1h 12m
- Sulla: Five Takeaways. And Aftermath16m
- Comparison: Lysander and Sulla26m
- Seneca, The Madness of Hercules59m
- Catiline I: Rome's Deadliest Conspiracy1h 09m
- Catiline II: Cicero's Moment41m
- Catiline III: The Last Stand50m
- Crassus I: Richest Man in Rome1h 19m
- Crassus II: Puppet Master1h 14m
- Crassus III: Battle of Carrhae1h 26m
- Crassus Aftermath, Takeaways, Sources19m
- Spartacus — with Barry Strauss51m
- Pompey I: Kid Butcher1h 21m
- Pompey II: Empire of Venus1h 49m
- Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus1h 57m
- Pompey: Aftermath, Comparison w/ Spartan King Agesilaus40m
- Gallic Wars 1: Caesar's Chance1h 17m
- Gallic Wars 3: Caesar At Sea1h 03m
- Gallic Wars 7: Vercingetorix and the Great Revolt1h 53m
- Cato II: Seducers of Rome1h 38m
- Caesar 1: Man of Destiny1h 51m
- Caesar 2: Law and Nature2h 07m
- Caesar's Civil War I: Breakdown1h 46m
- Caesar's Civil War II: Bloody Pharsalia1h 29m
- Caesar's Civil War III: Came Saw Conquered1h 30m
- The Psychology of Envy and the Fall of Caesar: w/ Rob Henderson1h 11m
- Julius Caesar and the Jews, w/ Barry Strauss1h 04m
- Caesar 3: Divus Julius2h 25m
- Is Julius Caesar in Heaven?1h
- The Modern Roman Legion? w/ "Monastery of the Damned" author Nicholas Tobias1h 17m