Notes For Week 4 Monday Lecture

Chronology

  • 354 - Rome and Samnium enter treaty in response to Gallic invasion.
  • 343-341 - First Samnite War (possibly apocryphal).
  • 340-338 - Revolt of the Latin League.
  • 334 - Romans establish colonia of Cales near Capua.
  • 334- Roman peace treaty with Tarentum.
  • 328 - Romans establish colonia of Fregellae to block Samnite expansion in Liris valley.
  • 327 - Samnites garrison Neopolis.
  • 326 - Rome drives Samnite garrison out of Neopolis
  • 326 - Great (or Second) Samnite War begins. It will last until 304.
  • 321 - Disaster at the Caudine Forks
  • 315 - Samnites defeat Fabius Rullianus at Lautulae.
  • 315 - Capua switches sides to Samnium.
  • 312 - Appius Claudius Caecus builds Appian Way to Capua
  • 304 - Samnites sue for peace to end Great Samnite War.
  • 303 - Rome and Tarentum renew their peace treaty.
  • 298 - Samnites attack Lucania.
  • 295 - Romans defeat alliance of Samnites, Etruscans, Gauls and Umbrians at Batlle of Sentium.
  • 293 - Lucius Papirius Cursor defeats Samnite "Linen Legion" at Aquilonia.
  • 289 - Death of Agathocles of Syracuse
  • 290 - Samnites sue for peace to end Third Samnite War.
  • 282 - Rome sends ships to Thurii in violation of 303 BCE treaty with Tarentum.
  • 280 - Pyrrhus brings his army to Italy.
  • 280 - Pyrrhic victory at Heraclea.
  • 279 - Pyrrhic victory at Ausculum.
  • 278 - Treaty between Carthage and Rome against Pyrrhus.
  • 275 - Rome defeats Pyrrhus at Malventum/Beneventum.
  • 273 - Pyrrhus dies in Argos.
  • 272 - Tarentum accepts status of socius.
  • 264 - First Punic War begins.
  • 242 - Office of praetor perigrinus created.
  • 241 - First Punic War ends.
  • 227 - Overseas praetors increased to four.
  • 218 - Second Punic War begins.
  • 204 - Hannibal withdraws from Italy.
  • 202 - Scipio Africanus th Elder defeats Hannibal at Zama.

Factoids & Terms

  • Roman Senate
  • Roman army
  • agger
  • Via Appia
  • corvus
  • praetor
  • praetor urbanus
  • praetor perigrinus
  • overseas praetors
  • provincia
  • promagistrate
  • prorogation
  • patres conscripti
  • clavus latus
  • senatus consultum
  • auctoritas
  • princeps senatus
  • senatus consultum ultimum
  • principales
  • immunes
  • milites

 

 

Images for Week 4 Monday lecture:

 

  1. Map of Italy:
  2. historical map of Roman Empire
  3. tribes of Italy
  4. Italian peninsula
  5. map of old Latium
  6. Central Ancient Italy
  7. Interactive Map of Roman Roads
  8. Map of Ancient Campania
  9. Map of Latium and Campania
  10. Southern Italy in the 3rd Century
  11. Southern most Italy
  12. Map of Adriatic with Epirus
  13. Pyrrhus
  14. Punic Spain
  15. Carthage and Spain - 218
  16. Appian Way
  17. Tomb of the Scipios
    1. Sarcophagus
  18. Pyrrus of Epirus
  19. Punic warship
  20. Roman Trireme
  21. corvus
  22. Hannibal
  23. Hamilcar Barca
  24. Scipio Africanus the Elder

 

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Questions:

  • Did Rome plan or stumble into her empire.
  • How did Rome's foreign expansion affect her political constitution?

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