By 321 BCE, Rome was standing nearly victorious over the Samnites. They had managed to win nearly every engagement thus far in their 2nd war, even pushing the Samnites to offer up their surrender. Rome refused, likely believing that they held the upper hand and had the opportunity to completely defeat the Samnites. The Samnites though were not quite done just yet. Gaius Pontius, the Samnite commander, would enact a genius and cunning plan to trick the Romans into marching right into his trap. The Romans would be surrounded, out-numbered, and completely cut off from any supplies or reinforcements. The entire Roman would be at his mercy and the fate of Italy and it's people stood on his shoulders. What would Gaius do? Why is this one of Rome's greatest defeats? And what would happen to that Roman army? Let's talk about it.
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Nicholas Horsfall, The Caudine Forks: Topography and Illusion
E.T. Salmon, The Resumption of Hostilities after the Caudine Forks
Michael P. Fronda: Livy 9.20 and Early Roman Imperialism in Apulia
Mary Beard: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Nic Fields and Sean O'Brogain: Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's humiliation in the Second Samnite War
0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Rome Triumphant
2:42 - The Start of the Caudine Forks Disaster
5:51 - What Should Gaius do?
9:02 - The Middle Path and Rome’s Humiliation
13:19 - Rome Responds
15:57 - Spurius’ Greatest Hour
21:30 - A Retrospective
26:15 - Outro
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