Secrets Of The Rubicon

Secrets Of The Rubicon
Ivo Ragazzini

Once there was a time when Romagna was named Flaminia and the Rubicon was not only a river. When in 49 BCE Julius Caesar arrived he found waiting for him a wooden palisade coloured ruby red where he deployed his legions for several months on that border defended by the legionaries of Pompeo.

But who and for what reason was it built, even before Caesar was born, a red line of defence built even to the sea and what would Caesar and his legions do to breach it?

Born out of the historical events that have never before been seen, this book will lead you to discover for the first time what the Rubicon really was, what did the legionaries of Caesar do when they decided to attack Rom and many other unpublished news that you never even suspected and will lead, step by step, to discover for the first time: • What was the Rubicon really? • Who and for what reason was it constructed even before the birth of Caesar? • Why have historians never been able to agree about where the Rubicon was? • What plans and strategies did Caesar employ to cross it? • And Pompeo’s legions in its defence? • Had someone made a curse against whoever dared to cross it armed? • Did Caesar and his legions had nightmare from the ‘Malanotte’ before crossing it? • What was Romagna and what did it symbolise in the time of Caesar? • What was the festival of ‘New Years’ that took place in Roma? • What Latin insults did their legions tell each other? And much other unpublished news that you have never suspected. A book that for the first time will cast on the historical darkness left to fall on these events.

Ivo Ragazzini

SECRETS OF THE RUBICON

Rome's Ruby Red Line

Original title: I Segreti del Rubicone

Translated by: Rosemary Dawn Allison

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© 2018 Ivo Ragazzini

First paperback edition November 2018 -- Montag Edizioni

Second paperback edition September 2020

First digital edition August 2019

Second digital edition September 2020

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Contents

Contents (#ulink_bb77d6e1-5bb4-5f74-a341-af89e7444294)

Preface (#ulink_8c837930-75a6-51c5-a952-11861b652417)

Where the Rubicon lay was also the road to Rome (#ulink_3df8eec8-0c96-57d2-a1a7-81e52cb7f528)

What was the real Rubicon? (#ulink_e5a187dc-05f4-51aa-a887-d6db5254e247)

The conversation between Caesar and Hortensius continues (#ulink_dd53b156-7e9c-5a4d-967c-912bdbb94397)

Brief historical introduction (#ulink_8dc7058b-70f0-5926-bedd-fd6f676d2c6b)

Caesar's arrival in Cesena (Curve Caes Arena) (#ulink_672cc7df-8eb2-5cd5-b76d-925b4e0254dc)

The Urgon witch (#ulink_f1ca1002-087e-54b6-b468-a28e553b6362)

The disposition of Caesar and Pompey's troops (#ulink_f12546fc-ae2c-55a5-8537-ee9912be3d64)

Mark Anthony, Hortensius and Caesar's plan (#ulink_dd8e5299-e616-5610-a68a-bfcc3fb8ee30)

Caesar's political plan for Rome (#ulink_ccc63367-fd0d-5d04-b7bd-763098ac5400)

Caesar climbs the Colle Garampo to observe Pompey's troops (#ulink_f4aa92c8-18d6-5f1b-ae41-b6289cdf6fb1)

Curva Caes Arena -- Caesar's circular arena (#ulink_66046416-9b98-52dc-ab6f-c59f042a51c0)

The Gallic legions arrive and begin to resettle the land in Romagna (#ulink_503bdf5f-5c49-5797-ab0d-d58a0c523552)

La Caveja the symbol of Romagna (#ulink_beb72fea-b145-550c-b034-b4ff21cb6a2f)

A Flamen comes to threaten Caesar telling him not to dare cross the Rubicon (#ulink_1af26714-acb7-55e9-969b-43cf1ebd2cf4)

The curse of the Rubicon (#ulink_0586e5ea-664e-5d65-817b-4a32bef3174b)

The conversation between Caesar and the Flamen (#ulink_385d0fa9-2dfc-517e-a8f3-17cfdc406293)

The Flamen curses the Rubicon border (#ulink_645675d3-2685-5be4-96eb-79ba98b1cc0e)

Superstition makes Caesar free a few horses on the (#ulink_0728a623-d726-5383-80ec-826db23cb7ab)Rubicon to make them cross the forbidden border (#ulink_0728a623-d726-5383-80ec-826db23cb7ab)

The Urgon witch (#ulink_116503cd-30e4-5686-bd60-507c04b537c9)

What was happening beyond the Rubicon among Pompey's ranks? (#ulink_2ee58265-a6e4-543d-950a-3b943eaeed97)

The mysterious caves of Santarcangelo di Romagna (#ulink_810d8dc6-6944-5031-891d-45020bab7e2a)

The Cult of Mithras (#ulink_841474ab-7f99-54f3-87a7-4a9b0582fe38)

The elections for the Chief Consul of the Year in Rome (#ulink_49d07ef3-3ddd-5dd1-a174-be1d98644d1d)

Caesar's secret plan (#ulink_5d1b1b4e-bb24-50d6-b363-4ca493f8d904)

Arriving in Rome, Caesar's men set about seeking alliances to influence his election (#ulink_b8d93ecf-5592-5354-93d2-bc2d872f72e9)

The festivities for the Head of the Year -- The New Year (#ulink_87466dcc-385f-59c4-a591-a45f933870a6)