TY - BOOK AU - Osgood,Josiah TI - Uncommon wrath: how Caesar and Cato's deadly rivalry destroyed the Roman Republic SN - 1541620119 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - Caesar, L. Julius KW - Cato, Marcus Porcius, KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Politics and government KW - 265-30 B.C KW - Rome KW - History KW - Republic, 265-30 B.C N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index; Coming of age in civil war -- Making names for themselves -- Political ambitions -- The conspiracy of Catiline -- Showdown in the forum -- Divorces and marriages -- The consulship of Julius and Caesar -- Cato's triumph -- Gaul -- Cato's medicine -- Civil war -- "Even a victor" -- Anticato -- Requiem for a Republic N2 - "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." -- ER -