EARLY: The Siege of Alesia

“Run the jute” was right there

Proud of the Xzibit meme lol

For anyone who thought the name sounded familiar Quintus Tullius Cicero was the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero (the Catilinarian conspiracy defeating guy)

Caesar would be a trex, not because of their strength but because of the little arms

if he actually did kill 1-3 million people as a result of this war, thats 1-3% of the estimated global population at that time

You never want to be in a slave situation

16:03 Yes, Van Helsing literally was Dutch in the original novel.

ALESIA? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I NEVER HEARD OF ALESIA!!!

Can't wait for the bonus historical supernatural offshoot episodes of Lions Led by MoonTurk

IIRC Crassus had only had a minor Triumph, for dealing with Spartacus, & people thought it was kinda embarrassing for him to have accepted it. Hence his, previously covered, Parthian campaign BC he felt insdequate against Pompey "The Young Butcher" & Julius

Julius Caesar would have been a tyrannosaurus "I-swear-I-am-not-a" Rex who has been immediately thagomized

It doesn't take a ballista ponderer

When did the gauls get the magic potion?

Perturabo and Rogal Dorn would have loved this battle

welsh/breton and all the other celt langs currently existing are insular ones vers whatever helvetii spoke was a continental celt lang like gaulish

Justice for Vercingetorix!!!!!

Everything should start with "somewhere in Ohio"

Right, so I'll be starting my day with this episode and then playing Eluveitie's Helvetios album for the rest of the day.

As someone who lives in Cleveland, I love the constant hating on Ohio. Keep it's greatness a secret and my cost of living (or whatever you call slowly dying in this state) low!

"I've always wondered how to say this stuff" - Nate, you've been producing and guesting on a podcast where they do comedy bits about classical education and bits in Latin for most of a decade

Siege Warfare Conga Line of Death

It's the anti-survivability onion!

The prefix wal in English and Germanic languages means foreigner. It’s how we got the surname Walsh. It was given to cambro-Norman colonists in Ireland.

brb breaking out my copy of de rerum gestarum to follow along with caesar’s propaganda narrative in latin (i will be listening to this episode for weeks as i work on translating)

I can’t help but take away from this episode that Rome would have been a much more efficient, effective, and long lasting empire if they’d just built a logistics system based around paying for foodstuffs and shipping it while campaigning rather than stealing, raping, and pillaging.

the iron pods are cast… God help us all

A tribe called NERV…

I bet infinite amounts of skin-bucks that Bibi and like at least 2/3rds of the Knesset have vacation houses in Kfar-WhatsApp that they let former Wagner guys crash at when they aren’t crashing in a private jet that’s suspiciously full of holes and on fire…

I swear to God one of my absolute fondest childhood memories was having a 2-hour snow delay from elementary school once where I spent it watching an older History Channel mini documentary about the Roman conquest of Gaul that went super into depth about this battle. I fucking wish that channel didn’t become the leaking raw pseudo-intellectual fascism sewage pipeline that it did but I was barely old enough to remember the times before that. I haven’t started the episode yet so I’m gonna flip tf out if someone mentions having a similar experience… lmfao

Speaking of double-seiges, think enough time has passed to do the Battle of Aleppo? That was a battle so fucked the frontline looked like a spiral. A triple-seige actually, if you include the Kurdish neighborhoods.

My two favorite historical sieges within 10 episodes.

Ohio will come for your blood. Just you wait. It always gets her Mark (Love a show!)