Marc Hyden, Director of State Government Affairs at R Street and author of Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour, joins the show to discuss the life of one of Ancient Rome’s most innovative (and controversial) military minds; Gaius Marius.
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• 01:33 Introduction
• 01:46 An interest in Rome
• 04:06 Growing pains in Ancient Rome
• 06:36 The man born in Arpinum
• 09:46 Serving in the legions
• 11:37 Jugurtha 
• 13:25 Roman politics  
• 20:31 Marius in Numidia 
• 28:51 Sulla and political reform
• 37:06 The Cimbri and Teutones and “Marius’s Mules” 
• 43:05 Career on the rocks 
• 49:02 Social War to Civil War
• 56:27 “Do you dare kill Gaius Marius?”