It's the Engines on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast where we are continuing on from where

we left off at the end of our last episode.

We are continuing the story of the Sam Knight Wars with Dr. Catherine Lomas.

Now, in the last episode, we covered the background to this conflict, how conflict erupted

between the Romans and the Sam Knights in the mid-4th century BC.

And then we delved into the detail of what we know about this quite enigmatic first Sam

Knight War.

Now, we're going to be continuing the story.

We're going to be talking about the second Sam Knight War in a lot of detail, the Battle

of the Cording Forks, for instance, why that moment is so significant in Roman history

or infamous, shall we say.

And then we continue into the third and final Sam Knight War, which would ultimately result

in Rome gaining control of large swathes of central and southern Italy, very much paving

its way to becoming the dominant power on the Italian peninsula.

This is a really interesting period in ancient history for me.

I think it's absolutely fascinating.

Just before Pyrrhus arrives in southern Italy, Rome is really starting to make its mark in

Italy itself.

You have one last hurrah, as mentioned, you have Pyrrhus arriving afterwards before Rome

faces off against the Carthaginians in the Punic Wars.

But that is all preceded by one of the greatest rivals in Rome's earlier history, and that

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