Episode 37. Spartacus: The Slave War and What It Revealed
Sources and HistoriographyNo contemporary account of the Servile War survives. The two main sources—Plutarch's Life of Crassus and Appian's Civil Wars—were both written more than a century after the e...
24 Apr 25min
Episode 36. Sertorius: The Republic in Exile
Sources and HistoriographyPlutarch's Life of Sertorius is the primary source, but it is itself a secondary source: Plutarch drew principally on Sallust's Histories, which covered the Sertorian War in ...
24 Apr 47min
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23 Apr 1min
Episode 35. Sulla, Part Three: Dictatorship, Reform, and the Resignation
Sources and HistoriographyThe proscriptions and the dictatorship are covered by Plutarch's Life of Sulla and Appian's Civil Wars. The proscription numbers—roughly ninety senators and several thousand ...
17 Apr 27min
Episode 34. Sulla, Part Two: The First March and Mithridates
Sources and HistoriographyPlutarch's Life of Sulla is the primary source for this episode, and Plutarch had a particular personal investment in it: he was born at Chaeronea and his account of the batt...
17 Apr 52min
Episode 33. The Cinnan Republic: Rome Without Sulla
Sources and HistoriographyThe Cinnan period is one of the most poorly sourced stretches of the late Republic. The problem Robin Seager identified in the Cambridge Ancient History cannot be overstated:...
17 Apr 37min
Episode 32. Marius, Part Three: The Terrible Old Man
Sources and HistoriographyThe principal ancient source for this episode is Plutarch's Life of Marius, covering the flight, exile, return, and death. Plutarch's account of the Minturnae episode and the...
17 Apr 31min
Episode 31. The Social War: Italy Demands What Rome Owes It
Sources and HistoriographyThe Social War is one of the more poorly sourced events of the late Republic, which is ironic given its importance. Livy covered this period in detail, but those books surviv...
17 Apr 32min
