Rome's Patrician Republic

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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By 450 BC, the Roman Republic was beginning to take on the outlines of a form we recognize, with elected magistrates, a Senate, and written laws. But these were hard times for Rome, and there was no guarantee that the city would even dominate its immediate area, much less Italy and beyond.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
0:04.4	Join Wunderry Plus in the W they milled around on the muddy road.
0:22.0	Several hundred men pursued them through the mud carrying
0:23.9	spears, javelins, and swords. It was a simple matter for them to drive off the few armed
0:29.2	guards protecting the herd. They would eat well tonight once they had driven the cattle back up the hill to
0:34.4	their little fort with its mixture of wood and stone defenses overlooking the stream they called
0:38.9	the Kremera. They were the men of the fabir, Suodales, companions of Kaisophagus, a consul of the city of Rome, and they had
0:47.2	sent the men of the Etruscan city of Vae on their way once again.
0:52.2	The men of the Fabii were experienced cattle wrestlers and it was easy for them to gather
0:56.0	the dozens of head and heard them up the gentle rise. Only a few of them really stopped to think about what
1:01.5	they were doing. It was too easy thought one man an
1:04.7	ancient gray beard wearing a bronze curas and carrying a thick-bladed chopping sword in his
1:09.2	gnarled scarred hand. He had been fighting with the fabir for decades, stealing herds and burning villages and
1:15.4	spearing the enemies of his patrons, and it had never been so simple. These cattle were
1:20.0	valuable. Where were the rest of their defenders? Why had they been driven so close to
1:25.1	the outpost of the fabhi where the men of Vayi knew they had hundreds of enemies?
1:30.6	The Greybeard was shouting to get in some kind of formation to ready their shields and abandon the cattle when he saw the figures rising out of the brush that bordered the muddy track.
1:39.0	The ditches were full of armed men.
1:41.0	So were the
1:43.0	copses of trees and the dead ground behind that small rise.
1:45.0	They were surrounded with enemies on every side
1:48.0	far outnumbering the several hundred five years.
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