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Episode 9: Vae Victis: The Gallic Sack of Rome
SOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books V-VI (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library) — our fullest account
- Plutarch, Life of Camillus (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, Makers of Rome, 1965)
- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Books XIV-XV — preserves the Greek dating tradition
- Polybius, Histories, Book I.6 — important for the 387 BCE date
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 13-14 — essential; pp. 308-322 on the date and historiographical problems
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapter 10
- Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts (Oxford University Press, 1997) — on Gallic culture, warfare, and the carnyx
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015), Chapter 5
- On Quintus Fabius Ambustus and the fetiales: Cornell pp. 314-316; Livy V.35-36
- On the civitas sine suffragio granted to Caere: Cornell Chapter 14; the status of the Caerites as a model for later Roman provincial administration
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By Hugo PrudentiusSOURCE NOTESPrimary Sources
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books V-VI (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library) — our fullest account
- Plutarch, Life of Camillus (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, Makers of Rome, 1965)
- Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Books XIV-XV — preserves the Greek dating tradition
- Polybius, Histories, Book I.6 — important for the 387 BCE date
- T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 13-14 — essential; pp. 308-322 on the date and historiographical problems
- Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapter 10
- Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts (Oxford University Press, 1997) — on Gallic culture, warfare, and the carnyx
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015), Chapter 5
- On Quintus Fabius Ambustus and the fetiales: Cornell pp. 314-316; Livy V.35-36
- On the civitas sine suffragio granted to Caere: Cornell Chapter 14; the status of the Caerites as a model for later Roman provincial administration