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.

• Introduction


• 1: Coming of Age in Civil War


• 2: Making a Name for Themselves


• 3: Political Ambitions


• 4: The Conspiracy of Catiline


• 5: Showdown in the Forum


• 6: Divorce, Marry, Repeat


• 7: With Cato in Prison


• 8: Cato's Triumph


• 9: Gaul


• 10: Cato's Medicines


• 11: Civil War!


• 12: "Even a Victor"


• 13: Anticato


• 14: Requiem for a Republic


• A Note on Sources

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