We return to 389 BCE to see just how Rome recovered from the Gallic Sack.

Camillus is dictator in Rome and Ahala is his trusty master of the horse. It’s time for Rome to make things right in their immediate area. There are a bunch of neighbours to deal with, including the Etruscans, the Volscians, and the Aequians.

We’re in a hazy period where our sources appear out of sync with each other. Livy offers the most fulsome narrative that has survived for this period whereas sources like Diodorus Siculus and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are fragmentary or have their focus elsewhere.

The Power of Camillus

By this time, Camillus’ reputation is so cemented in the region that his mere presence at the head of a military is enough to leave their enemies shaken if not stirred. The Volscians are certainly not happy when Camillus and crew turn up on their doorstep. When Camillus turns up at the city of Bolae of the Aequians, will they also fall at his feet?

Things to listen out for

• Burning ramparts!
• Booty and payment of soldiers?
• Seventy years of conflict with the Volscians?
• Deditio - total and unconditional surrender
• Central Italy as the site of a zombie apocalypse
• A very fast back and forth of city taking - hello, Sutrium!
• The survival of the scared hut to Mars on the Palatine
• The Tyrant of Syracuse is back for our ‘Meanwhile in Sicily’ segment
• Philoxenus, the dithyrambic poet
• Plato’s sojourn to Sicily

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