🎧 The Rise of Rome: The Fall of the Samnites
🎧 The Ancients
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In the final part of our Samnite Wars episodes, Tristan is once again joined by Dr Kathryn Lomas from Durham University to find out more about these conflicts and the effect they had on the rise of Rome as an ancient superpower. With three wars between the Roman Republic and the Samnite armies, beginning in 343 BC and ending with a Roman victory in 290 BC - what happened in those 53 years?
In this episode, Tristan and Kathryn cover the second and third wars, and look at the impact these infamous events had on the socio-political make up of the Italian peninsula. With Rome successfully taking control of large swathes of central and southern Italy, and the arrival of Pyrrhus, one of history's most fabled men - is this the beginning of Roman domination across the Mediterranean?
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