This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler and you're listening to volume three the classical world

episode 32 the Battle of Mount Vesuvius. The Despite many people knowing of Spartacus, due to his story being an inspirational heroic underdog story which tends to garner a lot of interest from many.

The Battle of Mount Vesuvius is not always the first thing that comes to mind

when you mention Mount Vesuvius due to an event which happened

in the following century, which will be covered in a future episode.

Mount Vesuvius overlooks the Gulf of Naples

and it's only between 100 and 150 miles down the west coast of the Italian Peninsula from Rome.

But despite the fact that there is only a short distance between Rome and the area around Naples.

There is definitely a distinction between Northern and Southern Italian culture between these two areas and this is ingrained in the

Italian peninsula's history and the Roman period is no exception to this observation.

Back in the Roman period, the most notable city of this area was not Naples, but instead

Kapwa. It is difficult to Naples, but instead, Capua.

It is difficult to trace the history of Capua back from the Roman period with any degree of

confidence.

We can refer back to episode 29 regarding the Battle of Cany, which happened

a couple of centuries previous to today's episode's Battle.

Canny is roughly across the other side of the Italian peninsula from Mount Vesuvius in the east.

We learned during that episode that there was a migration of people from across the Adriatic Sea who came to be referred to as Yapigians,

and brought their Mesopic languages with them.

They pushed those indigenous italic language speakers from these lands.

So this takes us back to a time early in the first

millennium B.C. when it was likely that all the lands nearer to the south of the

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