Italy

Part of Tides of History

With Kathryn Lomas

Kathryn Lomas on her own book, sixty minutes on the Italy that Rome grew up inside: Oscan and Umbrian speakers, Greek colonies on the coast, and one Latin town among many.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Forty-two minutes on the peninsula before Rome held it: Etruscans in the north, Samnites in the mountains, Greek cities in the south. Murray Dahm, Lindsay Powell and Michael Taylor on the neighbours Rome had to beat before anyone else.

Part of The Partial Historians

With Francesca Fulminante

Francesca Fulminante on Rome as one settlement among many in Latium, and on why this one grew. Forty-one minutes of landscape archaeology applied to a founding question.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Mark McCaffery

How the early Republic's army was actually organised and paid, which is the answer to why Rome could lose repeatedly and keep fielding armies.

Part of The Ancients

With Steele Brand

Steele Brand on the citizen-farmer army: Pyrrhus lands at Tarentum in 280 BC expecting a walkover and spends six years learning otherwise. Fifty-nine minutes.

Part of Tides of History

Forty-two minutes on the fourth century BC, when Rome went from one town in Latium to the master of Italy. The terms offered to the defeated do more of the work here than the battles.

Part of The History of Rome

Seventeen minutes on the king who beat Rome twice and lost his army doing it, which is where the phrase comes from.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Twelve minutes on the question of when it stopped being winnable for anyone else, across three centuries of Italian warfare. Murray Dahm picks a point and defends it.

Part of Ancient Rome Live

Eight minutes on the Samnites, the mountain confederation that sent a Roman army under the yoke at the Caudine Forks in 321 BC and took three wars to subdue.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part three, fifty-six minutes on the crossing and its price: Hannibal reached Italy with a fraction of the army he set out with, and won anyway.

Part of Tides of History

Thirty-eight minutes on the crossing itself, in the teeth of an Alpine autumn with tens of thousands of men and a baggage train that had to go over the same passes.

Part of Tides of History

Thirty-eight minutes on the Gauls of the Po valley, who sacked Rome around 390 BC and frightened it for longer than Hannibal ever did.

Part of Autocrat: A Roman History Podcast · Vince and Cassie, 137 numbered episodes

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Nine minutes on Hannibal's logistics, which is the part of the campaign that decides it and the part the story always skips.

Part of Life of Caesar

Sixty-seven minutes on Pompey abandoning Italy without a fight, which left Caesar the capital and the treasury in two months.

Part of The History of Byzantium

Twenty-seven minutes on the western provinces at the start of the series, still Roman in law and ruled by Goths and Vandals in fact.

Part of The History of Byzantium

With Marco Cappelli

Eighty minutes with Marco Capelli on the Byzantine centuries in Italy, which Italian history teaching largely passes over.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

Sixty-one minutes on the century of fighting that made Italy Roman before any empire existed: Latins, Etruscans, Samnites, and the settlement terms that held it together.

Part of The History of Rome

Fifty-five minutes of Mike Duncan reading his own first chapter, on the Gracchi and the decades where the Republic started coming apart.

Part of The Ancients

Fifty-five minutes at Paestum, where three Greek temples from the sixth and fifth centuries BC stand better preserved than almost anything in Greece itself.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast · The three centuries between Alexander and Actium; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education · Lectures on literature and mythology; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Partial Historians

Twenty-five minutes of field notes from a research trip, which is the closest this show gets to a travel diary.

Part of The History of Byzantium

Twenty-one minutes on why the empire kept spending on Italy long after it stopped paying for itself, which is an argument about legitimacy.