Dr. Eve MacDonald
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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It's a little bit tricky to know exactly what's going on in the relationship between the cities in the west of Sicily, Sardinia, other places in Carthage.
We know they're allied and we know they're a sort of functional commonwealth.
So, you know, if there's trouble in Sicily, everybody calls on the Carthaginians, calls them in to defend.
And there's key ports that are allied to Carthage and Carthage collects fees.
They obviously are, I mean, I don't want to say they're running a racket, but in a way, there's this idea of how they their income functions is around sort of state um support for for ports.
So is that an empire?
I always don't know if we can.
I mean, I wouldn't even know if we could call the Romans.
We wouldn't call the Romans an empire at this point either, would we?
So I wouldn't say.
It is and it's really I always think it's the um
It's the Samnites.
It's the Samnite Wars at the end of the fourth and into the beginning of the third century that really solidifies Rome's uh expansive ideology uh into the south of Italy, which is what really concerns us here.
And it is absolutely um the defeat of the Samnites in very hard-fought wars.
I mean, to be fair.
The Seminite Wars were were quite intense for the Romans.
And I think that sort of
All of a sudden, the Greek city stings of Magna Graecia, it's called around the arch of the of the of the heel, arch of the foot of Italy, are facing Roman power now instead of the buffer of the Samnites, which they have had for a long time.
And so the Romans are expanding.
And Rome is a big important city at this period.
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