Episode 025 - Here come the Gauls - The Tale of Rome

The Senons attack and sack the city, all the while Marcus Furius Camillus is banned from Rome. Partial Transcript Hello, 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 ...