Episode 24 – A Wolf Among Hounds

The Ancient World

Scott C.

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🗓️ 21 March 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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“I freed those here who suffered unseemly enslavement and feared the tempers of their masters. I did this by harnessing force and justice together with power, and I carried through my promises. I wrote statues alike for those of high and of low social status, fitting straight justice for each. If someone other than I had taken the goad, some ill-intentioned and greedy man, he would not have been able to control the people. For had I been willing to do what pleased the opposing party then, or what the others planned for them, this city would have lost many men. That is why I made a stout defense all round, turning like a wolf among many hounds.” – Solon of Athens The leaders of Rome, Carthage and Greece relied on strength, wisdom and cunning to navigate the turbulent political waters of the early sixth century Mediterranean. The delicate balance struck by Solon allowed Athena to prosper, while also unleashing the popular forces that would define the city’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	Hi, I'm Scott Chesworth and welcome to the ancient world.
1:03.0	Episode 24, A Wolf Among Hounds.
1:08.0	In 641 BC, Ancus Marsius, Sabine Noble, and grandson of Numapompilius became the fourth King of Rome.
1:21.2	The final years of his predecessor, Tullus Hostilius, had been a veritable potpourri of tragedies and ill omens.
1:29.2	A horrible plague had swept through the city, ravaging the population and eliminating their ability to make war on their neighbors.
1:37.0	While grasping about for a cause, the Romans had seized upon their recent immigrants, the Albans, who'd been resettled in Rome after their
1:46.5	conquest by Tullus Austilius. The rumor began to spread that the Albans had forsaken the gods of their ancestors and their new
1:55.3	home was being punished for their loss of devotion.
1:59.4	Tullus Austilius, who'd spent most of his reign campaigning, with little thought to his religious duties,
2:06.1	made the kingly call that if Rome was to survive, he'd better get himself some serious religion and right quick.
2:14.7	Rifling through the files of his predecessor, Numa, a pious man if there ever was one, he
2:20.3	came across the perfect solution, a ceremony honoring the supreme Roman god Jupiter.
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