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Episode 10. After the Fire: Rome Rebuilds and Rome Remembers

Works Cited Primary Sources

Cicero. De Re Publica, Book II; De Officiis, Book III. On Ahala, Manlius, and the patrician duty tradition.
Livy. Ab Urbe Condita. Books VI–VII, translated by B. O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library; also translated by Betty Radice, Penguin Classics.
Plutarch. “Life of Camillus.” Makers of Rome, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, 1965. The fullest account of the post-sack career.

Secondary Sources

Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Profile Books, 2015. Chapter 5.
Cornell, T. J. The Beginnings of Rome. Routledge, 1995. Chapters 14–15. Essential on the rebuilding and the Licinian-Sextian laws.
Forsythe, Gary. A Critical History of Early Rome. University of California Press, 2005. Chapters 10–11.
Richardson, L., Jr. A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. On the Servian Wall (pp. 434–435) and the temple of Concordia.

On Marcus Manlius Capitolinus

Cornell, T. J. The Beginnings of Rome, pp. 326–329; Livy VI.11–20.
Flower, Harriet. Roman Republics. Chapter 3, for the connection to the later populares tradition.
Forsythe, Gary. A Critical History of Early Rome, pp. 255–260, for the political interpretation.

On the Manipular Reform

Adcock, F. E. The Roman Art of War under the Republic. Heffer, 1940.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. The Complete Roman Army. Thames and Hudson, 2003. Chapter 2.
Livy. Ab Urbe Condita. VIII.8, the best ancient narrative account; Polybius VI.19–26, the most detailed ancient description of how the system worked in practice.

On Roman Emergency Procedure and the Calendar

Brunt, Peter. Italian Manpower 225 BC–AD 14. Oxford University Press, 1971.
Fowler, William Warde. The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic. Macmillan, 1899.

On the Licinian-Sextian Laws and Camillus’s Role

Cornell, T. J. The Beginnings of Rome, Chapter 15; Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome, Chapter 11; Livy VI.35–42.

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Episode 75. Nero, Part Two: From the Matricide to the Great Fire

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Episode 72. Britain: The Province at the Edge of the World

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Episode 71. Claudius: The Emperor Behind the Curtain

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Episode 70. Caligula: The Principate Without Restraint

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