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The Battle of Munda (45 B.C.E.)

RIP to a real dude.  What a champ.

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The Battle of Munda (45 B.C.E.)

The Beginning of the Roman Civil War: https://youtu.be/SYxN134gb-8 Patreon: http://patreon.com/HistoriaCivilis Website: http://historiacivilis.com T-Shirts: http://teespring.com/stores/historiacivilis Donate: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KTEBKRSR3N4VQ Twitter: http://twitter.com/HistoriaCivilis Sources: Anonymous, "On the Spanish War" | https://amzn.to/2GcrVI1 Adrian Goldsworthy, "Caesar: Life of a Colossus" | https://amzn.to/2IwIgdt Philip Freeman, "Julius Caesar" | https://amzn.to/2P76QDd Anthony Everitt, "Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician" | https://amzn.to/2E99Vhs Adrian Goldsworthy, "Antony and Cleopatra" | https://amzn.to/2DdOviQ Barry Strauss, "The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination" | https://amzn.to/2DdNVla William Blake Tyrrell, "Biography of Titus Labienus, Caesar’s Lieutenant in Gaul" | https://bit.ly/30h2DBP Arthur Weigall, “The Life and Times of Marc Antony” | https://amzn.to/2HlkCA6 Kathryn E. Welch, "The Career of M. Aemilius Lepidus 49-44 B.C." Hermes 123, no. 4 (1995): 443-54 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4477106 Plutarch, "Parallel Lives: The Life of Julius Caesar" | https://amzn.to/2Ii8dOv Appian, "The Civil Wars, Book 2" | https://amzn.to/2GaG097 Suetonius, "The Life of Julius Caesar" | https://amzn.to/2X6fAfs Cassius Dio, "Roman History, Book 43" | https://amzn.to/2CLjQs4 Anonymous, "On the Alexandrian War" | https://amzn.to/2GcrVI1 Cicero, "Letters to Atticus, Book 13" | https://amzn.to/2mOZ5V9 Music: "It's Always Too Late to Start Over," by Chris Zabriskie "Mell's Parade," by Broke For Free "Infados," by Kevin MacLeod "The House Glows (With Almost No Help,)" by Chris Zabriskie "Hallon," by Christian Bjoerklund We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

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JCN

GREAT VIDEOOOO!!! YEAHHHHH!!!

Logical Insanity

I like the postulation on what proportion of Caesar's success was due to Labienus, 50% is honestly higher than I was expecting

bel0919

Upon his return to Rome, according to Plutarch, the "triumph which he celebrated for this victory displeased the Romans beyond any thing. For he had not defeated foreign generals, or barbarian kings, but had destroyed the children and family of one of the greatest men of Rome."

spteng

Short, but there really aren't any good videos on this battle on youtube. As for the next topic, the question is, can you do it as well as William Shakesphere.

Historia Civilis

I didn't want to derail the video by re-litigating the entire Gallic Wars, but after thinking about... Labienus lived permanently on campaign and didn't really make any significant mistakes over that entire period. Caesar kinda came and went with the seasons, made some pretty major mistakes. (Gergovia springs to mind, although you might categorize the entire Vercingetorix thing as one giant strategic blunder.) I don't know, you could genuinely argue it either way. I wanted to be careful not to start a big argument in the comment section, but I think it's safe to say that among the general population, Labienus gets approximately 0% of the credit for the Gallic Campaigns, (nobody knows who he is,) and the truth is that he should get something closer to 50% of the credit. Maybe not exactly 50%, but something closer to 50%. I would want to do more research before I firmly settled on a position, but there's certainly a CASE TO BE MADE that he deserves more credit than Caesar. It depends on how reliable you think Caesar's Commentaries are, and what kinds of things he might be covering up. But like I said, you could argue it either way.

bel0919

you mean that he's biased and then unreliable ?

JJ

The next upload is going to be heartbreaking,

bel0919

is that triumph episode cited only by Plutarch ? i mean, is it confirmed by any other source?

Historia Civilis

The Triumph stuff is covered by Plutarch, Appian, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius. That incident is pretty rock solid since the pro-Imperial sources include a lot of the embarrassing stuff, which was against their interest.

bel0919

thank you for the answer.

Brandon

When is this going to be given public release.

Historia Civilis

I'm thinkin' Wednesday next week. I held it back so that I could get a little ahead of schedule on the next video.

Brandon

Oh, great! Thanks! Lookin' forward to it.

Hailey Morrison

Octavian? Pfft what a nerd, I bet we’ll never hear of him again