• Thumbnail for Battle of Clastidium
    The Battle of Clastidium was fought in 222 BC between a Roman army led by the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus and the Insubres, a Celtic people in northern...
    6 KB (709 words) - 14:14, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marcus Claudius Marcellus
    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
    single combat in 222 BC at the Battle of Clastidium. Furthermore, he is noted for having conquered the fortified city of Syracuse in a protracted siege...
    24 KB (3,025 words) - 21:52, 1 August 2024
  • Viridomarus (category Year of birth unknown)
    led an mercenary army against a Roman army at the Battle of Clastidium. The Romans won the battle, and in the process, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the...
    1 KB (105 words) - 12:23, 6 May 2024
  • colleague Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus continues the siege of Acerrae. At the Battle of Clastidium Marcellus defeats the Gaesatae. Marcellus personally slays...
    5 KB (603 words) - 13:10, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Honos
    Marcellus defeated and slew the Gallic king, Viridomarus, at the Battle of Clastidium, to win the spolia opima, he vowed a temple to Honos and Virtus....
    5 KB (516 words) - 12:33, 12 August 2024
  • of Northern Italy. 225 BC – Battle of Telamon – Romans under Aemilius Papus and Gaius Atilius Regulus defeat the Gauls. 222 BC – Battle of Clastidium...
    53 KB (5,938 words) - 13:33, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Single combat
    king of the Gaesatae, at the Battle of Clastidium (222 BC); and Marcus Licinius Crassus from Deldo, king of the Bastarnae (29 BC). Depictions of single...
    16 KB (2,110 words) - 15:39, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of duels
    opima from Viridomarus, King of the Gaesatae, at the Battle of Clastidium. 29 BC: Marcus Licinius Crassus vs. Deldo, King of the Bastarnae. March 13, 624:...
    78 KB (11,118 words) - 10:41, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ligures
    Ligures (category History of Liguria)
    into Gallia Transpadana. In 222 BC, the battle of Clastidium was fought and allowed Rome to take the capital of the Insubres, Mediolanum (modern-day Milan)...
    55 KB (6,744 words) - 16:49, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Insubres
    Insubres (category History of Lombardy)
    Marcellus headed for Clastidium and his colleague Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus continued the siege of Acerrae. At the Battle of Clastidium, Marcus Claudius...
    12 KB (1,694 words) - 09:21, 4 August 2024
  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...
    108 KB (480 words) - 00:32, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virtus
    Claudius Marcellus, during the battle of Clastidium in 222 BCE, dedicated a temple to Honos and Virtus. This was one of the first times that Virtus had...
    23 KB (2,903 words) - 10:53, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman expansion in Italy
    beginning of the war and had conquered part of the territories of Cisalpine Gaul. The battle of Clastidium, in 222 BC, earned Rome the capture of the Insubres'...
    56 KB (6,934 words) - 20:50, 1 August 2024
  • the battle of Clastidium in 222 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus vowed to dedicate a temple to Honor and Virtue, a vow he renewed after the capture of Syracuse...
    4 KB (501 words) - 00:17, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spectacles in ancient Rome
    Spectacles in ancient Rome (category Culture of ancient Rome)
    In Romulus the story of Romulus and Remus is told; Clastidium tells of the battle of Clastidium in 222 BC won by Marcellus against the Gauls, a victory...
    48 KB (6,533 words) - 02:28, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman army of the mid-Republic
    Gallic foot. At the Battle of Clastidium, the Roman cavalry under Marcellus achieved a unique victory in overwhelming a larger force of Gallic horse and...
    85 KB (12,003 words) - 14:45, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Celtic warfare
    Ancient Celtic warfare (category Battles involving the Celts)
    240: Defection of Naravas 238: Battle of Aphrodisium 225: Battle of Faesulae 225: Battle of Telamon 222: Battle of Clastidium 218: Battle of Rhone Crossing...
    82 KB (9,432 words) - 15:27, 29 August 2024
  • The fortress-pantry of Clastidium, where the Romans kept large reserves of food, especially wheat, had also fallen into the hands of Hannibal. Titus Livy...
    7 KB (941 words) - 15:04, 2 September 2024
  • the Battle of Lake Vadimo, the Battle of Faesulae in 225 BC, the Battle of Telamon in 224 BC, the Battle of Clastidium in 222 BC, the Battle of Cremona...
    134 KB (17,535 words) - 18:28, 8 September 2024
  • colleague Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus continues the siege of Acerrae. At the Battle of Clastidium Marcellus defeats the Gaesatae. Marcellus personally slays...
    264 bytes (4,138 words) - 19:45, 12 April 2024
  • compelled to surrender after the Battle of Clastidium. According to Polybius, in 222BC the Romans invaded the territory of the Insubres and laid siege to...
    2 KB (251 words) - 16:55, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hannibal
    have to march to reinforce Scipio. He then captured Clastidium, from which he drew large amounts of supplies for his men. But this gain was not without...
    99 KB (12,668 words) - 17:18, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Trebia
    Meanwhile, Hannibal bribed a force of Roman allies from Brundisium (modern Brindisi) garrisoning a large grain depot at Clastidium (modern Casteggio), 40 kilometres...
    51 KB (6,684 words) - 11:17, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Placentia (217 BC)
    defeat of the army of Tiberius Sempronio Longo in the second, where the Roman army was largely destroyed on the field. The fortress-pantry of Clastidium, where...
    10 KB (1,276 words) - 00:26, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman–Gallic wars
    conquering Gallic territories south of the Alps. Rome invaded the territory of the Insubres in 223 BC, and took Clastidium, Acerrae and Mediolanum in 222 BC...
    12 KB (1,461 words) - 13:29, 8 February 2024
  • Gaesatae (category Mercenary units and formations of antiquity)
    defeated by the Roman cavalry at Clastidium in the territory of the Insubres. According to Plutarch, in his Life of Marcellus, the Gaesatae numbered 30...
    7 KB (787 words) - 09:25, 21 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Silva Litana
    by the Romans following their defeat at the Battle of Telamon. Having lost battles at Acerrae and Clastidium, the Insubres surrendered after their capital...
    31 KB (3,985 words) - 08:22, 29 August 2024
  • with the victory of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus at the Battle of Pydna (168 BC), as the Clastidium of Naevius and the Ambracia of Ennius were written...
    7 KB (937 words) - 01:16, 12 July 2024
  • Roman–Gallic wars Battle of Clastidium – 222 BC – Roman–Gallic wars Battle of Lilybaeum – 218 BC – Second Punic War (Punic Wars) Battle of Ticinus – 218 BC...
    453 KB (52,488 words) - 17:27, 7 October 2024
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (category Roman commanders of the Second Punic War)
    armies against the Insubres of Cisalpine Gaul. Scipio laid siege to Acerrae, while Marcellus engaged the Insubres at Clastidium. After Acerrae fell, Scipio...
    12 KB (1,623 words) - 05:53, 5 June 2024