Episode 14. Carthage: The Other Power
Works Cited Primary Sources Aristotle. Politics, Book II (c. 340 BCE). The primary source for Carthaginian constitutional arrangements. Available in translation via the MIT Internet Classics Archive...
27 Mar 42min
Episode 13. Pyrrhus of Epirus: The King Who Won Himself to Death
Works Cited Primary Sources Appian. Samnite History (Samnitica), fragments. Additional material on the Italian Greek perspective.Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities. Books 19–20 (fragments...
27 Mar 55min
Episode 12. The Samnite Wars, Part Two: Sentinum and the Conquest of Italy
Works Cited Primary Sources Cicero. De Senectute; Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia. Preserve the main anecdotes about Manius Curius Dentatus, including the turnips story and the Samnite ...
27 Mar 55min
Episode 11. The Samnite Wars, Part One: The Road to the Caudine Forks
Works Cited Primary Sources Appian. Samnite Wars. A fragmentary account that preserves some details not in Livy.Cicero. De Re Publica; De Officiis. Several passages discuss the devotio, Manlius Torq...
27 Mar 43min
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...
20 Mar 38min
Episode 9. Vae Victis: The Gallic Sack of Rome
Works Cited Primary Sources Diodorus Siculus. Library of History. Books XIV–XV. Preserves the Greek dating tradition.Livy. Ab Urbe Condita. Books V–VI, translated by B. O. Foster, Loeb Classical Lib...
20 Mar 31min
Episode 8. Virtue and Its Discontents: Coriolanus, Cincinnatus, and Camillus
Works Cited Primary Sources Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities. Books VI–XIII. Fuller on Coriolanus than Livy.Livy. Ab Urbe Condita. Books II–V, translated by B. O. Foster, Loeb Classical...
20 Mar 28min
Episode 7. Rome and Its Neighbors, the World of the Early Republic
Works Cited Primary Sources Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities. Books VI–IX.Livy. Ab Urbe Condita. Books II–V, translated by B. O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library; also translated by Aubre...
20 Mar 26min
