Samnite

This severe crisis of representation led to the great Social War with Rome, in which once-loyal allies, such as the Samnites and the Etruscans battle for their civil rights within the Roman Republic.

2002 Tracking the Samnites: Landscape and Comminicatios Routes in the Sangro Valley, Italy.

Until recently, the Samnites' reputation has been based on reports left by their Latin-speaking neighbors, who wiped them out.

From her remotest beginnings, Rome enjoyed an almost uninterrupted string of military successes, at first over hostile neighbors like the Aequans, the Volscians and the Samnites, and later against over seas rivals like Carthage, Macedonia and Pontus.

In addition to Rubinstein's "Melody in F," Phile's "Hail Columbia," college fight songs, and football half-time marches, Weisberg pilfered from Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry's opera Les mariages samnites, and used popular tunes like "Hail to the Chief," "Grand Old Flag," "The Wearing of the Green," and "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," sometimes several times under different titles.

On one occasion, the two consuls captured at the battle of the Caudine Forks made peace with the victorious Samnites. When the Roman Senate declined the terms of that peace, the consuls were returned to the enemy.(166) In another episode quite similar to that of Regulus, ten Romans taken by Hannibal at the battle of Cannae were sent to Rome to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners.(167) Like Regulus, they were sworn to return to Hannibal if they failed in their mission.

* (Northern Calabria) The Lucanians and Samnites defeat Alexander, king of Epirus (ca.

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Brother of Olympias and both uncle and brother-in-law of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon; enthroned by Philip II of Macedon as King of Epirus after he had defeated and exiled Arybbas (343); married Cleopatra, the daughter of Philip and Olympias, and Philip was murdered at his wedding feast (336); invaded southern Italy in response to a plea for help from Tarentum (Taranto), which was threatened by Samnites and Laucanians (334); landed at Paestum (332) and campaigned with some success, capturing several Laucanian cities, but he was defeated and killed at the battle of Pandosia (331).

The richest prehistory comes from the South; there were tribes as great as the Etruscans in the South -- the Samnites were not hillbillies from Appallacia, but Hellenised urban communities; in Roman times the South served as the engine of the peninsula; in the Dark Ages when Rome was a ruinous wilderness and Tuscany forgotten, the kingdom of Benevento was one of the great strongholds of Latin Christendom.

Born around 333, reputedly to a humble plebeian family; led an army to victory over the Samnites at Aquilonia (293); elected consul (290), he quelled a revolt by the Sabines and directed the partial drainage of Lake Velinus (near Terni) (289); elected to replace consul L.