# 102- Playing Whack-a-City

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Podcast: [Autocrat- A Roman History Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/autocrat-a-roman-history-podcast-6816332)
Published: 2026-03-29T19:43:00+00:00
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## Resource

We march through the years from 752 to 716 BCE, polishing off the remaining thirty-six years of Romulus' rule. Along the way, we'll watch Rome hit a bunch of opponents until they stay down one after another and Romulus take on some tyrannical airs the Senate don't like. Also, is it Dionysus of Halicarnassus- or is it John? Sources for this episode: Dionysus of Halicarnassus (1960), The Roman Antiquities of Dionysus of Halicarnassus. Translated by E. Cary. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd. Livy (1971), The Early History of Rome. Translated by A. de Selincourt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd. M’s Chronicle of the Roman Republic (TBA). Pliny’s Natural History (TBA) Plutarch (1938), Plutarch's Lives (Volume I). London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.

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