{"id":104597,"date":"2026-09-04T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104597"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:55:48","slug":"marius-saved-rome-then-they-turned-to-his-greatest-rival-romes-first-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/marius-saved-rome-then-they-turned-to-his-greatest-rival-romes-first-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Marius Saved Rome &#8230; Then They Turned To His Greatest Rival | Rome&#8217;s First Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3GHoDqZhlA?si=ygxkOcxtHiMEtG55\" 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 3 Sep 2026 <\/p>\n<p>What was the ancient city of Rome actually like in the first century BC? Who was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, another great, but aristocratic, Roman general who would clash with Gaius Marius in a totemic struggle termed the Social War? And, who were the terrifying Germanic tribes amassing on the borders of the empire, potentially spelling its doom &#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Rome&#8217;s apocalyptic threat from the North, Marius&#8217; wars in defence of the empire, and the rise of his greatest adversary: Sulla. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Rome&#8217;s Most Unlikely Saviour<br \/>\n4:25 The Barbarian Threat to Rome<br \/>\n9:15 Rome&#8217;s Catastrophic Defeat<br \/>\n14:04 Marius Rebuilds the Roman Army<br \/>\n16:48 Marius Takes on the Teutones<br \/>\n19:36 The Cimbri Are Annihilated<br \/>\n23:41 Marius Becomes Too Powerful<br \/>\n27:00 The Rise of Sulla<br \/>\n31:02 Sulla&#8217;s Ruthless Ambition<br \/>\n35:05 Amazon<br \/>\n36:15 The Extraordinary Wealth of Roman Italy<br \/>\n42:49 Italy&#8217;s Second-Class Citizens<br \/>\n46:18 The Social War Erupts<br \/>\n50:44 Rome Fights Back<br \/>\n52:35 Sulla Becomes Rome&#8217;s New Hero<br \/>\n56:05 A New War in the East<br \/>\n58:18 Mithridates Takes on Rome<br \/>\n1:02:00 Marius Makes His Comeback<br \/>\n1:04:39 Violence Erupts in Rome<br \/>\n1:07:01 Marius Takes Sulla&#8217;s Command<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Tom and Dominic mention during this episode, there&#8217;s a members-only bonus episode discussing the (much contested) &#8220;Marian reforms&#8221; of the Roman army with &#8230; Bret Devereaux who is a strong proponent of the notion that the Marian reforms were <a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/qotd-the-marian-reforms-were-not-a-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">not a thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 3 Sep 2026 What was the ancient city of Rome actually like in the first century BC? Who was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, another great, but aristocratic, Roman general who would clash with Gaius Marius in a totemic struggle termed the Social War? And, who were the terrifying Germanic tribes amassing [&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":[1391,650,1632,1372,1345,553,1488,1604],"class_list":["post-104597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-biography","tag-civilwar","tag-gaiusmarius","tag-mithridates","tag-romanrepublic","tag-senate","tag-sulla","tag-therestishistory"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rd3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104597","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=104597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104598,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104597\/revisions\/104598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}