It's the Engines on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes your host, and in today's podcast where we're talking all about the

Rise, one of the first warlords really of the late Roman Republic, the Rise of Marius.

Now this is quite an odd podcast episode actually it was recorded over a year ago with Dr.

Federico Santangelo from the University of Newcastle. I'm glad we are finally releasing

it. Federico was a wonderful guest. I do hope you enjoy. And without further ado to

talk all about the Rise of Marius, here's Federico.

Federico, it is great to have you on the show.

My pleasure. Thank you very much for having me.

Now Marius and Sala, this is an amazing topic and can we say that these are the first two

prominent warlords of the late Roman Republic?

Oh yes, that's one of the few certain things we can say about them. Yes.

And the notion of warlords, you know, it's a controversial one because it's one drawn

from contemporary history and as ever modern concepts do work only up to a point when

it comes to ancient history, but it is a productive notion because it really brings us to

the interplay between the military dimension and the political one.

Fantastic. We're starting with a certainty in an ancient history podcast. This is great.

So that will be from now.

Indeed.

I'm presuming our sources on both of these figures, they are quite extensive.

By the standards of ancient history, yes. But there's an important caveat. They are mostly

late. They're mostly with one or two exceptions from the Imperial period, from the late first,

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