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Beware the Ides of March! In this extra-adult episode we discuss 6 of the 12 Caesars, Roman superstitions and modern, HBO's Rome, and was Suetonius a scandal monger? (Yes.)Recommendations:The History of Rome podcast by Mike DuncanBBC History Extra podcast, had an excellent recent episode about Agrppina the YoungerEmma Southon book on Agrippina (Most biographies on Roman women are written by men, so this is neat) Hardcore History podcast one off episode on Caesar’s war in Gaul titled “Celtic Holocaust” Fiction: Augustus, by John Williams; Non-fiction: The Death of Caesar, by Barry Strauss (he has a very interesting theory on Caesar’s death)Mysteries writers Steven Saylor and Lindsey Davis