Battle of Tifernum, 297 BC ⚔️ Struggle for the mastery of Italy ⚔️ Third Samnite War (Part 1)

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🚩 The Battle of Tifernum (297 BC) was an important battle of the Third Samnite War, fought between the Romans and the Samnites near the modern town of Città di Castello in central Italy. The outcome of this clash would lead to the decisive Battle of Sentinum in 295 BC...
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🚩 Research and Writing by Dr.Byron Waldron of Sydney University, Australia. He recently published a book titled "Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, AD 284-311". It's an excellent read: edinburghuniversitypress.com/...
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📚 Sources:
Cassius Dio, Roman History
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
Frontinus, Stratagems
Livy, From the Founding of the City
Polybius, Histories
Zonaras, Epitome of Histories
Bradley, G. 2020: Early Rome to 290 BC: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic, Edinburgh.
Cornell, T. 2017: ‘The “Samnite Wars,” 343-290 BC, in M. Whitby & H. Sidebottom (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles, Malden MA, Oxford & Chichester, West Sussex, 2.469-479.
Forsyth, G. 2006: A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War, Berkeley.
Oakley, S. P. 1997-2005: A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X, Oxford.
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🚩 Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video! Go to establishedtitles.com/MARCHE10 to shop their Black Friday Sale, plus get an additional 10% off on any purchase with code MARCHE10 and help support the channel! 🚩PLAYLIST: PART 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHW7iHtrZq59eLs PART 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5KyiYd-oKmUgKM 🚩 The Battle of Tifernum (297 BC) was an important battle of the Third Samnite War, fought between the Romans and the Samnites near the modern town of Città di Castello in central Italy. The outcome of this clash would lead to the decisive Battle of Sentinum in 295 BC...

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If you are attacked from all 4 sides it is great to protect projectiles and the general, but if the enemy is smart and focus all the preassure in one side you have left the three other sides of the square idle.

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Fabius literally ambushed an ambush, that takes superhuman skill to the folks that read this, its a joke; please react to it like a normal person and move on, no one wants to know what you think

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Hi all. I co-wrote the episode. If you have any questions, please ask me. A small extra point: I think Fabius Rullianus knew what he was doing. He was enticing the Samnites into launching their ambush against his well-prepared square (agmen quadratum), and had Scipio Barbatus en route to attack them in the rear, effectively ambushing the ambushers. It was clever tactics. Perhaps the Romans suffered considerable casualties too, but that's a guesstimate that has been circulated based on the nature of the fighting, and it may well have been much less costly for the Romans. Indeed, Fabius consistently knew what he was doing, winning at least 16 engagements during the Second Samnite War and at least 11 engagements during the Third Samnite War.

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What was different about the Roman way of war that allowed them to conquer all their neighboring peoples? What edge did they have?

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@@Cyberpunkerify There were a number of factors. Their aristocracy encouraged war mongering, since one would rise through the political ranks largely through military success, and Roman aristocrats had one year to win eternal glory for themselves and their family, and maybe, through their success, win a triumph and a second consulship. A key feature of Roman aristocratic culture was the desire to match and exceed the military achievements of one's ancestors, and aristocratic families were repeatedly reminded of their ancestors' achievements. Another factor was the Roman practice of absorbing cities as allies. These cities supplied military manpower and, perhaps even more importantly, through the extending of citizenship they expanded the tax-base for Rome. Rome's expansion between the fourth century BC and 167 BC depended on the tributum tax, and from 338 BC, with the settlement at the end of the Latin War (when they granted citizenship to the Latins and Campanians), they were able to expand their tax-base three-fold. The tributum tax ended in 167 BC because of the surplus wealth acquired from conquest in the eastern Mediterranean, but by then Rome was already the all-powerful hegemon of the Mediterranean. Their power had been increasingly secure ever since the Treaty of Apamea in 188. The fact that they also allied themselves with aristocratic elites in other cities would have also been useful. By allying with those already in power in other cities, they had many elites across Italy on their side. In contrast, Athens forcibly installed democracies in allied cities. The Romans, unlike the Athenians, also didn't demand an excessive tribute. The tributum tax was the same modest tax that Roman citizens also paid in Rome itself. It wasn't an excessive exploitation of Rome's allies. As long as the allied elites weren't being bled dry of their wealth, they'd be willing to pay the tributum tax or provide military manpower.

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How much time is spent doing research for a famous battle of antiquity? Do you have to spend most of your time going to physical libraries or can you do most of your research on the internet?

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@@ericwoods6286 I already knew what to look for - which sources to check, which scholarship to check. So I spent a day writing Part 3, for example (I've also already spent a long time thinking about the Third Samnite War, so I already pretty much knew what I'd be writing). Many ancient sources are available online, and anyone who is a member of a university library also has access to a heap of online resources. For example, the University of Sydney library, which I use, has many many e-books, and so I can check things from home.

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Morale has always been a fragile thing. Nobody wants to get hit from the rear or flanks. Nobody wants to be the last guy of the army left on the battlefield while everyone is making a run for it. Fast forward in time a little bit, the Second Punic War begins in 218 BC, not even 100 years after Tifernum. It's a bit of a surprise, but when Rome got into that war, it's consolidation of the Italian Peninsula had not been that long ago. So, when Hannibal was stomping Roman armies and rampaging up and down Italy, knowing that recent history, he expected regions once former, bitter enemies of Rome to jump at the chance and join the fight. So imagine Hannibal's surprise that this didn't really happen.

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A ROMAN general who sends out scouts detects an ambush and properly formulates a response!! It seems then that the Romans with the praenomen, nomen of Fabius Maximus were all huge brains.

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