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Episode 11: The Samnite Wars, Part One
SOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books 7–9 - The principal narrative for the First and Second Samnite Wars, the Latin War, and the Caudine Forks. Books 7–8 cover the First Samnite War and the Latin War; Book 9 opens with the Caudine disaster and covers the recovery.
- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Books 16–19 - A parallel Greek account. His silence on the First Samnite War is one of the principal reasons scholars question Livy's account of that conflict.
- 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 Torquatus, and the moral significance of the Latin War settlement.
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995) - Essential on the Samnite Wars, the Latin War, and the settlement of 338 BCE. Cornell's analysis of the citizenship spectrum remains the standard treatment.
- Edward Togo Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge University Press, 1967) - The fundamental study of Samnite history, society, and culture. Dated in some details but still the most thorough treatment of the Samnites as a people rather than simply as Rome's adversary.
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005) - Particularly useful on the historiographical problems of the First Samnite War and the reliability of Livy's sources.
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of the West (2009) and Roman Warfare (2000) - Good on the manipular army's development and the military context of the Samnite Wars.
- Nathan Rosenstein, Rome at War (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) - Essential on manpower, the economics of Roman military expansion, and what sustained warfare meant for the Roman peasant farmer.
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By Hugo PrudentiusSOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books 7–9 - The principal narrative for the First and Second Samnite Wars, the Latin War, and the Caudine Forks. Books 7–8 cover the First Samnite War and the Latin War; Book 9 opens with the Caudine disaster and covers the recovery.
- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Books 16–19 - A parallel Greek account. His silence on the First Samnite War is one of the principal reasons scholars question Livy's account of that conflict.
- 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 Torquatus, and the moral significance of the Latin War settlement.
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995) - Essential on the Samnite Wars, the Latin War, and the settlement of 338 BCE. Cornell's analysis of the citizenship spectrum remains the standard treatment.
- Edward Togo Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge University Press, 1967) - The fundamental study of Samnite history, society, and culture. Dated in some details but still the most thorough treatment of the Samnites as a people rather than simply as Rome's adversary.
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005) - Particularly useful on the historiographical problems of the First Samnite War and the reliability of Livy's sources.
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of the West (2009) and Roman Warfare (2000) - Good on the manipular army's development and the military context of the Samnite Wars.
- Nathan Rosenstein, Rome at War (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) - Essential on manpower, the economics of Roman military expansion, and what sustained warfare meant for the Roman peasant farmer.