The Tale Of Rome

The Senons attack and sack the city, all the while Marcus Furius Camillus is banned from Rome.Partial TranscriptHello, this is Abel, speaking from Beijing, China. Welcome to my podcast.The Tale of Rome, Episode 25 — Here come the Gauls.Last week we saw how Marcus Furius Camillus was exiled from Rome, after having conquered Veii, and after having doubled Rome’s landmass.As for Veii, the city became a ghost town. The peasants around Veii — who were initially not disturbed by Rome, were quickly absorbed by a few patrician senators, who took their farms, livelihood, and anything else they had left.In fact, most of Rome's new lands fell into the hands of a really small group of Patricians, and Rome felt like the king of the heap.But — as the saying goes, the higher you fly, the harder you fall, and this was no exception to the rule.[...]And then, something that wasn’t supposed to happen, happened.One of the Roman ambassadors, to be more exact, Quintus Ambustus put a sword in the guts of a Gaul. The Gaul turned out