Episode 146 - Nobody Calls Me Chicken

In this episode, the people of Antium start provoking the Aequians and the Volscians into war with Rome by calling them COWARDS. How else could they respond but to say, “Nobody calls me chicken!” Episode 146 - Nobody Calls Me Chicken! With the Antiates, Volscians and Aequians ganged up against them, the Romans decide it’s time for a dictator! Not all of the military tribunes were terribly happy with this decision. Ahala seems to have been the only magistrate who could put the state before his own ambitions. As a reward for being such a dazzling military tribune, Ahala was chosen to serve as master of the horse, the assistant to the dictator. Leaving his grumbling colleagues behind, Ahala and the dictator headed off to face the foe. Tune in to hear how the Romans fare against THREE of their rivals. Want to revisit a previous clash with Antium? Check out Episode 99 - Tusculum and Antium. Things to Look Out For: * Dodgy election tactics * Whingy military tribunes with consular power * Patricians resorting to incredibly desperate measures * Smug tribunes of the plebs * Dr G having a small identity crisis * Armpit farts A mosaic of roosters fighting. Nobody calls them chicken! Courtesy of Amphipolis on Flickr. Our Players 408 BCE Military Tribunes with Consular Power * C. Iulius Sp. f. Vopisci n. Iullus (Pat) Mil. Tr. c. p. 405 * P. Cornelius A. f. M. n. Cossus (Pat) * C. Servilius P. f. Q. n. Ahala (Pat) Mil. Tr. c. p. 407, 402. Dictator * P. Cornelius M. f. L. n. Rutilus Cossus (Pat) Mil. Tr. c. p. 405 Master of the Horse * C. Servilius P. f. Q. n. Ahala (Pat) Mil. Tr. c. p. 408, 407, 402 Our Sources * Dr G reads the Fasti Capitolini and Diodorus Siculus 13.104.1, 13.108.2, 13.109. * Dr Rad reads Livy ab Urbe Condita 4.56. * Bradley, G. 2020. Early Rome to 290 BC (Edinburgh University Press). * Broughton, T. R. S., Patterson, M. L. 1951. The Magistrates of the Roman Republic Volume 1: 509 B.C. – 100 B.C. (The American Philological Association) * Cornell, T. J. 1995. The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC) (Taylor & Francis) * Forsythe, G. 2006. A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War(University of California Press)  * Lomas, Kathryn (2018). The rise of Rome. History of the Ancient World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674919938. ISBN