Ep 60: Marc Hyden on Gaius Marius
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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Episode description
Marc Hyden, Director of State Government Affairs at R Street and author of Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour, joins the show to discuss the life of one of the Roman Republic’s most innovative and controversial generals: Gaius Marius.
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• 01:33 Introduction
• 01:46 An interest in Rome
• 04:06 Growing pains
• 06:36 The man born in Arpinum
• 09:46 Serving in the legions
• 11:37 Jugurtha
• 13:25 Roman politics
• 20:31 Marius in Numidia
• 28:51 Sulla and political reform
• 37:06 The Cimbri and Teutones and “Marius’s Mules”
• 43:05 Career on the rocks
• 49:02 Social War to Civil War
• 56:27 “Do you dare kill Gaius Marius?”
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