The Tale Of Rome

Partial Transcripthttp://www.thetaleofrome.com/rome-006 Hello, this is Abel, in Beijing, China. Welcome to my podcast.The Tale of Rome, Episode 6 — Tullus Hostilius’ Holy Cow.Last week we saw how—after forty years of peace, Rome went back to its martial virtues. By the hand of King Tullus Hostilius, Rome went back to war, and it doesn’t seem strange to me, that the English word “hostile” or “hostilities” come from this king’s last name.Before we really dive into the rest of the life of Tullus Hostilius, I want to add a very short anecdote here.When the Sabines attacked Rome in the year 752 BC, because of the issue of their kidnapped women, Romulus organized a counterattack, as you might remember from Episode 3 of this podcast.You also might remember that the counterattack did not really bring any results, and that the Sabine women themselves solved the issue, at the end of the day.Finally, you also might remember how those Sabines took their time to carry out their attack, and so, almost a whole year had pass