• Thumbnail for Samnites
    Battle of the Caudine Forks (321 BC), the Samnites were subjugated in 290 BC. Although severely weakened, the Samnites would still side against the Romans,...
    115 KB (13,355 words) - 17:10, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samnite Wars
    First Samnite War started not because of any enmity between Rome and the Samnites, but due to outside events. The spark came when the Samnites without...
    97 KB (15,304 words) - 10:39, 14 August 2024
  • Samnite is an adjective meaning "having to do with ancient Samnium." Samnite may also refer to: Samnites, the people of ancient Samnium Samnite (gladiator...
    399 bytes (83 words) - 02:43, 1 August 2015
  • living. To the Samnites, having good relations with these spirits was of the utmost importance. To honor these deities, the Samnites would sacrifice...
    23 KB (2,943 words) - 16:42, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samnite (gladiator type)
    manner of a defeated foe, Romans mocked the Samnites and appropriated martial elements of their culture. Samnites were quite popular during the period of...
    11 KB (1,314 words) - 04:33, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samnium
    history the Samnites were landlocked, but during a brief period they controlled parts of both coasts of the Italian peninsula. The Samnites were composed...
    10 KB (1,184 words) - 08:46, 26 October 2024
  • spoken in early times in an area that was later colonized by Samnites, who spoke Oscan. Pre-Samnite is recorded in a few short inscriptions dating from around...
    4 KB (432 words) - 18:13, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Osci
    language, also spoken by the Samnites of Southern Italy. Although the language of the Samnites was called Oscan, the Samnites were never referred to as Osci...
    17 KB (2,190 words) - 15:22, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Appian Way
    themselves, traced their backgrounds to the Etruscans. The Samnite Wars were instigated by the Samnites when Rome attempted to ally itself with the city of Capua...
    33 KB (3,812 words) - 17:53, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Colline Gate
    the brink of disaster the Samnites and the Lucanians, who feared they would be next, decided to join the fray. The Samnite leader Pontius Telesinus rallied...
    9 KB (1,156 words) - 22:44, 17 August 2024
  • second-in-command (senior legate). The two men defeated the Samnites and captured Gaius Pontius, the Samnite commander, who was paraded in the triumph and beheaded...
    9 KB (737 words) - 13:25, 22 October 2024
  • The military campaigns of the Samnite Wars were an important stage in Roman expansion in the Italian Peninsula. The Samnites were a group of hill-tribes...
    9 KB (652 words) - 12:55, 2 August 2023
  • Battle of Camerinum in 298 BC took place during the Third Samnite War. In the battle, the Samnites defeated a Roman legion under the command of the propraetor...
    2 KB (119 words) - 21:18, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Latin War
    following news of Roman victories against the Samnites instead decided to attack the Paeligni. The Samnites were a tribal federation living in the central...
    18 KB (2,589 words) - 14:16, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus
    period of the Third Samnite War, when Rome finally defeated a coalition of their neighbors: the Etruscans, the Umbrians, the Samnites, and their allies...
    14 KB (1,665 words) - 11:42, 26 October 2024
  • cut down in the fighting, along with 25,000 Samnites and Semnones killed and 8000 captured. A force of Samnite fugitives are defeated by the Paeligni. Fulvius...
    4 KB (423 words) - 05:05, 7 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Caudine Forks
    Battle of the Caudine Forks (category Battles of the Samnite Wars)
    by the Samnites. At this point the Romans, according to Livy, fell into total despair, knowing the situation was quite hopeless. The Samnites had no idea...
    7 KB (816 words) - 09:09, 19 August 2024
  • Rome and some Samnite towns. The Roman consuls march their combined army to Tarracina and defeat a Samnite army there; killing 10,000 Samnites in the battle...
    4 KB (455 words) - 19:21, 25 August 2024
  • declaration of war by Athens against Macedonia. The First Samnite War ends with Rome triumphant and the Samnites willing to make peace. Epicurus, Greek philosopher...
    2 KB (262 words) - 12:47, 25 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pentri
    Pentri (category Samnite tribes)
    from that of the remaining Samnites. It is probable, indeed, that, throughout the long wars of the Romans with the Samnites, the Pentri were the leading...
    2 KB (287 words) - 22:42, 28 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Les mariages samnites
    Les Mariages samnites (The Samnite Marriages) is an opéra comique, described as a drame lyrique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by...
    3 KB (208 words) - 08:08, 22 August 2022
  • against a Samnite column that had been raiding Campania. He frees 7400 Campanian prisoners, kills 6000 Samnites, and captures 2500 Samnites, including...
    5 KB (3,754 words) - 15:05, 16 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Manius Curius Dentatus
    Cornelius Sulla Felix the dictator) during which time he defeated both the Samnites and Sabines and celebrated two triumphs. Returning home he took on a massive...
    7 KB (645 words) - 13:54, 23 April 2024
  • against a Samnite column that had been raiding Campania. He frees 7400 Campanian prisoners, kills 6000 Samnites, and captures 2500 Samnites, including...
    3 KB (324 words) - 12:49, 6 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for 290 BC
    Samnium and defeat the Samnites in several engagements. The Samnites sue for peace, thus ending the Third Samnite War. The Samnites are recognised by the...
    4 KB (360 words) - 14:58, 24 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Send under the yoke
    enemies practiced by the people of ancient Italy. Both the Romans and the Samnites forced the captives of their defeated enemies to pass under a yoke formed...
    3 KB (303 words) - 10:02, 13 October 2024
  • Antiochus I Soter annointed as king of the Seleucid Syria Third Samnite War: The Samnites reappoint Gavius Pontius, the victor of the Battle of Caudine...
    3 KB (413 words) - 19:20, 25 February 2024
  • against the Samnites forces the Samnites to sue for peace. However, the terms offered by Rome are so stringent that they are rejected by the Samnites and the...
    4 KB (482 words) - 02:19, 7 November 2024
  • recognized as ruler of Macedonia. Third Samnite War: On a road connecting Roman and Samnite territory, the Samnites attack and nearly capture the camp of...
    4 KB (531 words) - 21:23, 20 October 2023
  • temple of the goddess Athena. The second Samnite war formally ends with a peace agreement in which the Samnites obtain peace on terms that are severe but...
    4 KB (428 words) - 21:21, 3 August 2024