Rise of Rome: The First Samnite War
The Ancients
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The Diversity of the Greeks and the West
Tarrantum is a huge naval power. It's probably up there with Rome and Capua as one of the three biggest cities in Italy. Naples does actually very nicely thank you after the sunlight wars, which we'll come back to. The sources describe the Lacanian takeover as being all about sort of blood and guts and warfare and people being slaughtered. But if we look at the archaeology, you get a much more nuanced picture... Greek material culture, Greek names, Greek languages still there,. living alongside the Oskens.
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