If you are looking for original content I create for YouTube including video, this is not it. This is the first of many episodes of the podcast that I'm publishing on YouTube as well. Audio only. And if you are wondering what this episode is about... here you go:

In the space of a few decades, three major slave wars threatened the Roman Republic. In this episode, we see how the greed of land speculators, tax collectors and slave owners unleashed an orgy of bloodshed as tens of thousands of escaped slaves went to battle against Rome’s armies. Part I of this story covers the first two of the servile wars, and features political intrigues, fire-breathing Syrian prophets, cannibalism, love struck aristocrats arming their slaves, and heroic mass suicides.

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