The Battle of Philippi: Death of the Roman Republic

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In October 42 BC the Roman Republic committed suicide. Near the town of Philippi in northern Greece the forces of Brutus and Cassius, the famous assassins of Julius Caesar and the last surviving cheerleaders of the Roman Republic, faced off against the armies of Marc Antony and young Octavian. Two separate battles were fought, the results of which decided the future direction of Rome. In this Ancients podcast, Tristan was joined by Steele Brand (@steele_brand) to talk through these all-important battles. From the background to Brutus’ pitiful demise Steele explains the final Roman attempts to restore the Republic and how they were ultimately squashed by a combination of political brilliance, suicidal blunders and outrageous luck. Steele is the author of ‘Killing for the Republic: Citizen Soldiers and the Roman Way of War’. Quick note: Lycia is a region in southwest Anatolia, on the Mediterranean coast.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:02.7	Still on the half-term road trip,
0:04.1	as you heard from yesterday's podcast,
0:05.6	we run the Jurassic Coast.
0:08.2	The fossil hunting was reasonably successful.
0:11.3	Noic Theos, you'll be very surprised to learn.
0:14.7	But the odd bit of ammonite.
0:17.8	We also did see some second-mile war-beach defenses,
0:19.9	so on the whole it was mission successful.
0:22.6	This episode of History Hit is in fact a glimpse
0:26.2	at our new podcast, The Ancient Sits,
0:28.3	storming the charts here in the UK,
0:30.0	it's doing well elsewhere in the world as well.
0:31.4	It's Tristan Hughes looking at ancient history,
0:34.8	not to the Mediterranean basin,
0:36.1	but ancient civilizations all over the world.
0:38.7	Tristan is talking to Dr. Steele Brand,
0:40.7	he's an expert in Republican Rome,
0:42.2	so what else to talk about really,
0:43.6	one of them the place where the Roman Republic went to die,
0:47.3	went to kill itself, commit suicide,
0:50.5	the Battle of Philopi.
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