EPISODE · Mar 20, 2026 · 28 MIN
Episode 8. Virtue and Its Discontents: Coriolanus, Cincinnatus, and Camillus
from Real Roman History · host Hugo Prudentius
SOURCE NOTES:Primary Sources:Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus; Life of Camillus (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, Makers of Rome, 1965) — essential for both figuresLivy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books II-V (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library)Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Books VI-XIII — fuller on Coriolanus than LivySecondary Sources:T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 11-13Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapters 7-9Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015), Chapter 5Harriet Flower, Roman Republics (Princeton University Press, 2010) — on the civic virtue traditionOn Coriolanus: Cornell pp. 338-340; Forsythe pp. 205-210; for the Alcibiades pairing see Plutarch's introduction to the LifeOn Cincinnatus: Cornell pp. 229-234; for the Spurius Maelius episode see Livy IV.13-16 and Dionysius XII.1-4On the fall of Veii: Cornell pp. 309-322; Forsythe pp. 239-244; on the white horses triumph see Plutarch, Camillus 7
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