{"id":104542,"date":"2026-09-01T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104542"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:34:18","slug":"marius-the-outsider-who-rose-to-command-romes-army-romes-first-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/marius-the-outsider-who-rose-to-command-romes-army-romes-first-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Marius: The Outsider Who Rose to Command Rome\u2019s Army | Rome&#8217;s First Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZcjaVRFc0c?si=XViu4Knbp9UU7Ss6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Rest Is History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 31 Aug 2026 <\/p>\n<p>Who was Gaius Marius, one of the two men who would shape the fate of Rome in the first century BC? Why was his road to fame, fortune, and political greatness, from total obscurity, so dangerous? And, would Marius be the man to face down the existential threat facing the empire during this period? <\/p>\n<p>Join Tom and Dominic as they launch into one of the greatest struggles in the history of Rome, as two titanic generals and politicians clash over hegemony of the empire, in an age of tumult. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Gaius Marius: Rome&#8217;s outsider<br \/>\n6:13 Marius goes to war<br \/>\n12:09 Climbing Rome&#8217;s political ladder<br \/>\n18:35 Amazon<br \/>\n19:45 The Roman Republic turns violent<br \/>\n27:00 Marius takes on the aristocracy<br \/>\n31:45 War with Jugurtha<br \/>\n37:53 Marius betrays Metellus<br \/>\n40:12 Marius becomes Consul<br \/>\n44:28 A new threat approaches Rome<br \/>\n45:09 Marius meets his future rival: Sulla<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 31 Aug 2026 Who was Gaius Marius, one of the two men who would shape the fate of Rome in the first century BC? Why was his road to fame, fortune, and political greatness, from total obscurity, so dangerous? And, would Marius be the man to face down the existential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,7,5],"tags":[1391,650,1632,572,1345,553,1488,1604],"class_list":["post-104542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-biography","tag-civilwar","tag-gaiusmarius","tag-leadership","tag-romanrepublic","tag-senate","tag-sulla","tag-therestishistory"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104543,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104542\/revisions\/104543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}