Cato The Younger Part III | How Cato Caused The First Triumvirate

Cato The Younger takes on Caesar, Pompey Magnus, and Crassus backing them into a corner. The result, the first triumvirate.

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Song used: Aetas Romana by Adrian von Ziegler

Primary Sources:
Plutarch, The Life of Cato the Younger http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cato_Minor*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Cicero
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cicero*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Julius Caesar http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Pompey http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pompey*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Lucullus
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html
Plutarch, The Life of Crassus http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html
Cassius Dio Book XXXVIII
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/38*.html
Cassius Dio, Roman History, 38.3 trans. by Earnest Cary
https://lexundria.com/dio/38.3/cy
Suetonius, The Life of Julius Caesar
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius*.html
Cicero Letters To Atticus Vol. I

Secondary Sources:
Oxford Classical Dictionary: Tribuni Aerarii https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-6551
Cato The Younger, Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic by Fred K. Drogula
Cicero and the Roman Republic by F. R. Cowell