About this episode

This episode discusses Rome's rebuilding efforts after the Gallic sack, focusing on Camillus's triumph and the reassertion of Roman dominance.

Welcome back to Rome’s rebuilding era! It’s a year of reasserting dominance, crafting fancy hewn stones for building works, and getting the citizen body back in order. Camillus in Triumph After seemingly managing to defeat three of Rome’s enemies at once, Camillus was back in Rome, basking in his glory. Unfortunately, his success seems to have meant a life in slavery for many of the conquered people. Camillus auctioned these prisoners off, using the proceeds to pay back the Roman matrons and buy the city some gold bowls, engraved with his name. Citizens of Rome The Romans were trying to get back to business as usual after the Gallic sack. This involved granting citizenship to any people who had switched sides during the conflicts of the past decade or so. Welcome to the cleerrrb. There were also some reluctant Roman citizens still hanging out in Veii, and that just would not do. The senate issued a decree ordering them back to Rome – OR ELSE. Renovating Rome The Romans had to do some rebuilding after the Gallic sack, as we know, but why not make some improvements whilst they were at it? Livy records that the Capitol was given a substructure of hewn stone, which he thought was…

People in this episode

Host: The Partial Historians

Topics covered

• Roman history
• citizenship
• rebuilding
• military conflicts
• Camillus
• Gallic sack

Keywords

• Camillus
• Rome
• Gallic sack
• citizenship
• rebuilding
• military
• Aequians
• Etruscan

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Rome, Veii, Aequians, Etruscan

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