Episode 9. Vae Victis: The Gallic Sack of Rome

SOURCE NOTES:Primary Sources:Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Books V-VI (trans. B.O. Foster, Loeb Classical Library) — our fullest accountPlutarch, Life of Camillus (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin Classics, Makers of Rome, 1965)Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Books XIV-XV — preserves the Greek dating traditionPolybius, Histories, Book I.6 — important for the 387 BCE dateSecondary Sources:T.J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (Routledge, 1995), Chapters 13-14 — essential; pp. 308-322 on the date and historiographical problemsGary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (University of California Press, 2005), Chapter 10Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts (Oxford University Press, 1997) — on Gallic culture, warfare, and the carnyxMary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015), Chapter 5On Quintus Fabius Ambustus and the fetiales: Cornell pp. 314-316; Livy V.35-36On the civitas sine suffragio granted to Caere: Cornell Chapter 14; the status of the Caerites as a model for later Roman provincial administration