BRUTTIUM

brŭˈtēəm, ancient region, S Italy, roughly occupying the present Calabria, the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. Bruttium faced Sicily across the Strait of Messina. Inhabited in the interior by the Brutii (whose chief town was Cosenza) and by the Lucani, it was settled (8th cent. b.c.) along the coast by Greek colonists. Sybaris and Crotona were among the most prosperous towns of the colonies of Magna Graecia. The Romans conquered Bruttium in the 3d cent. b.c. Rhegium and Vibo Valentia were important Roman cities of Bruttium. The region passed to Byzantium after the fall of Rome and became known as Calabria.

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The Roman War of Antiochos the Great
Book by John D. Grainger; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Antiochus--Iii--King Of Syria--Ca. 242-187 B.C, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C, Syria--History--333 B.C.-634 A.D, Syrian War, 192-188 B.C
...now. The army placed under Baebius in Bruttium, however, cannot have been designated...well. At the same time, locating in Bruttium an army which was sup- posed to have...friendly territory. An army stationed in Bruttium but intended for Greece would have to...
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Ancient Italy: Historical and Geographical Investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and Sardinia
Book by Ettore Pais, C. Densmore Curtis; University of Chicago Press, 1908
Subjects: Greeks--Italy, Italy--History
...Ausonians to abandon Italy i. e., southern Bruttium , and betook themselves to the neighboring...Itali, which at first occupied southern Bruttium, was gradually extended to form the...beyond, and comprises all of southern Bruttium from Regium and Locri as far as Terina...
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The Roman Government of Britain
Book by Anthony R. Birley; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D, Great Britain--Politics And Government--To 1485, Romans--Great Britain--Politics And Government
...emended BpETTavia to BpouTia, that is, Bruttium. This is made even more convincing by...that the standard late Greek name for Bruttium was BpETTta.1 Palaeographically this...plausible explanation.2 It is true that Bruttium is also not obviously relevant. Still...
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The Second Punic War: Being Chapters of the History of Rome by the Late Thomas Arnold ..
Book by Thomas Arnold, William T. Arnold; Macmillan, 1886
Subjects: Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C
...Mutines to Sicily, 231 ; exploits in Bruttium, 209 B.C., 261 ; maintains his superiority...daughter of a chief of Castulo, 312 ; in Bruttium, 349 Hannibal, the Fighter, 65 Hanno...ib.; retires before Gracchus into Bruttium, ib.; comes to the aid of Capua...
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Hannibal: Soldier, Statesman, Patriot; and the Crisis of the Struggle between Carthage and Rome
Book by William O'Connor Morris; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1937
Subjects: Hannibal--247-182 B.C, Punic wars
...at this moment far to the south in Bruttium. The war now assumed a grander aspect...by Hannibals orders, advanced from Bruttium, and, eluding Gracchus on his flank...was compelled hastily to retreat into Bruttium. The campaign had opened auspiciously...
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The Agony of Departure: Silius Italicus' Punica 17.149-290
Journal article by Frances Mills; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Epic literature, Poetry, Poets, Silius Italicus (25-101)
...has drawn attention to this parallel earlier in his epic, when, at 16.4-10, he associates Hannibals withdrawal into Bruttium with Pompeys disorg-anised flight through Apulia in Bellum Civile 2, immediately before his final departure from Brundisium...


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Bruttium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BRUTTIUM bru te m, ancient region, S Italy...the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. Bruttium faced Sicily across the Strait of Messina...of Magna Graecia . The Romans conquered Bruttium in the 3d cent. b.c. Rhegium and Vibo...
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Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the core. Augustus divided Italy into 11 administrative regions (Latium and Campania, Apulia and Calabria, Lucania and Bruttium, Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, Etruria, Cispadane Gaul, Liguria, Venetia and Istria, Transpadane Gaul). By that time...
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Crotona
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CROTONA kroto n , Croton, or Kroton both: kro t n, ancient city, S Italy, on the east coast of Bruttium (now Calabria), a colony of Magna Graecia founded c.708 b.c. There Pythagoras established his school, which exerted a...
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Flaccus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...211) the Carthaginians near Beneventum, captured (211) Capua, and overcame (209) Hannibals garrisons in Lucania and Bruttium. Cnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, Quintuss brother, was convicted of cowardice against Hannibal in 210 and went into voluntary exile...
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Hannibal , Carthaginian General
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...his brother Hasdrubal on the Metaurus (Metauro) River made his position hopeless, and he withdrew into the mountains of Bruttium. Recalled to Carthage in 203 to check the advance of Scipio Africanus Major in Africa, he was decisively beaten at Zama...
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