Capua
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Oct 17, 2026
Trevor CulleyHOST
Many of the Greeks and Italics of Magna Graecia and some Samnite tribes sided with Carthage, opening a second front in the war for Rome to deal with, though these forces were smaller and easier for Rome to intercept before they could join the main army.
Trevor CulleyHOST
The worst of these defections were Locri, a major port, and Capua.
Trevor CulleyHOST
the second largest city in Italy, after Rome itself.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Capua was an obvious political victory, and Locri allowed Carthaginian reinforcements to arrive.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Rome was now desperate, and started enrolling everyone and anyone into the legions, provided they were a man.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Men too poor to enlist were just given equipment.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Of course, it wasn't all Roman victories.
Trevor CulleyHOST
Hannibal's personal forces continued to inflict massive defeats on their own Roman opponents, all but wiping out the Roman armies they encountered.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
When they refused to obey him he sent an army against them and compelled them to give hostages and to promise to do his bidding.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
He afterwards entered Italy in person with his army, 787, and passed through Rome to Capua, a city in Campania, where he pitched his camp and threatened the Beneventans with hostilities unless they should submit themselves to him.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Their duke, Aracus, escaped the danger by sending his two sons, Rumold and Grimold, with a great sum of money to meet the king, begging him to accept them as hostages and promising for himself and his people compliance with all the king's commands, on the single condition that his personal attendance should not be required.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
The king took the welfare of the people into account rather than the stubborn disposition of the duke, accepted the proffered hostages, and released him from the obligation to appear before him in consideration of his handsome gift.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
One interesting modern phenomenon, there are quite a few Italian politicians on a national level who are Pugliese as well.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
Consider that Puglia marks the end of the Appian Way, a 350-mile-long ancient highway that began in Rome, passed through Capua, then to Benevento, then to Venosa, then to Taranto, then to Oria, and then finally to Brindisi.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
If you remember the story of Spartacus and that slave revolt, he and his revolting slaves, revolting not because they were [laughs] ugly, revolting because they were rebelling, were meant to meet their pirate transporters in Brindisi.
Rocky RuggieroHOST
Brindisi was a tremendously important ancient Roman port.
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Concerned about Hannibal's trickery, the Roman consul did not want to risk losing the important city to the enemy.
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The hidden Capuan camp was soon discovered.
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Gracchus launched a surprise attack at midnight the same day.
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With a substantial portion of the Capuan contingent attending the festival in the hope that the Cumaeans would show up, the weakly defended camp was overrun.
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Over 2,000 Capuans were killed, including their commander.
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For Gracchus, this concentration of Capuan forces meant only one thing.
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It wouldn't be long before the Carthaginian army appeared.
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Indeed, Hannibal, having known about the conspiracy beforehand, was already on his way.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
His name was Spartacus.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
Spartacus had been brought to Capua by Batiadus, a lanista, or trainer of gladiators.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
And life at the ludus, or gladiator school, was unforgiving.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
New recruits were forced to swear an oath to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be killed by the sword, and to obey their master's will without question.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
It was now so late in the season that he could not expect such reinforcements immediately and he accordingly determined to select some place more accessible than Rome and make it his headquarters for the winter.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
He decided in favor of Capua, which was a large and powerful city, one or two hundred miles southeast of Rome.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
Hannibal, in fact, conceived the design of retaining possession of Italy and making Capua the capital of the country, leaving Rome to itself to decline, as under such circumstances it inevitably must to the rank of a second city.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
Perhaps he was tired of the fatigues and hazards of war and having narrowly escaped ruin before the battle of Cannae, he now resolved that he would not rashly incur any new dangers.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
It was a great question with him whether he should go forward to Rome or attempt to build up a new capital of his own at Capua.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
The question which of these two he ought to have done was a matter of great debate then and it has been discussed a great deal by military men in every age since his day.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
Right or wrong, Hannibal decided to establish his own capital at Capua and to leave Rome for the present undisturbed.
Shane NolanNARRATOR
He, however, sent immediately to Carthage for reinforcements.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
Instead of the desired name of the city, there obtruded themselves the following thoughts.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
Capua, Brescia, the Lion of Brescia.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
This lion I saw objectively before me in the form of a marble statue, but I soon noticed that he resembled less the lion of the Statue of Liberty in Brescia, which I saw only in a picture, than the other marble lion which I saw in Lucerne, on the monument in honor of the Swiss Guard fallen in the Tuileries.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
I finally thought of the desired name.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
Also, the tyrannical way in which she treated the children of the family was insufferable to me.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
Now I knew the significance of the substitutive thoughts.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
To Capua I immediately associated Caput Mortuum.
Mary SchneiderNARRATOR
I had often compared Veronica's head to a skull.
speaker_1GUEST
He uses the historical example of the Spartans, who tried to hold Athens and Thebes by setting up friendly oligarchies and ultimately lost them.
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Conversely, the Romans conquered Carthage, Capua, and Numantia, and they literally dismantled the cities and scattered the populations, and they held those territories.
AC WilsonHOST
It is a breathtakingly cold conclusion.
AC WilsonHOST
He's saying that the psychological conditioning of freedom is so deep that it cannot be bribed away.
Edem Julius-CudjoeHOST
If you are qualified to receive the wooden sword to be free, they put it on your shoulder, they give you your freedom, the rubrics.
Edem Julius-CudjoeHOST
If you are also qualified for anything, land, house, they give you the crown, the miter, you wear it, and they tell you that now you are in charge of the lands in Capua.
Edem Julius-CudjoeHOST
That's your, your own.
Edem Julius-CudjoeHOST
You've got all the land in Carthage.
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