SAMNIUM

sămˈnēəm, ancient country of central and S Italy, mostly in the S Apennines. It was E of Campania and Latium and NE of Apulia.

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A Companion to Latin Studies
Book by John Edwin Sandys; Cambridge University Press, 1913
Subjects:	Art--Rome, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Latin Philology, Rome--Antiquities, Rome--Description And Travel
...Adriatic lies the mountain-region of Samnium, traversed by the Via Appia , which passed...armies were wont to reach the heart of Samnium at Bouianum, near the source of the river...same name. In the mountains separating Samnium from Campania, the ridge of Mons Tifata...

City and Country in the Ancient World
Book by John Rich, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; Routledge, 1992
Subjects:	Cities And Towns, Ancient--Greece, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Rome
6 Settlement, city and elite in Samnium and Lycia John R. Patterson Introduction...concentrates on two areas in particular, Samnium in the Italian Appennines and Lycia...involved in archaeological fieldwork in both Samnium and Lycia. In the case of Samnium, I...

From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines
Book by Emma Dench; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects:	Apennines (Italy)--History, Greece--Ethnic Relations, Italic Peoples--Cultural Assimilation, Italic Peoples--Italy--Apennines, Rome--Ethnic Relations
...becomes very suggestive: he focuses on Samnium, where the archaeological evidence is...we simply know very much more about Samnium than about any other neighbouring area...as a whole based on the evidence from Samnium. There are hints that Samnium may have...

Italian Manpower, 225 B.C.-A.D. 14
Book by P. A. Brunt; Clarendon Press, 1987
Subjects:	Armies--Rome--History, Italy--History, Military, Italy--Population--History, Manpower--Italy--History
...annexed some of the more fertile parts of Samnium, notably for the Latin colonies of Aesernia...4 To this day there are few towns in Samnium. But the population is also correspondingly...some evidence outside as well as within Samnium; my statement is based on the index to...

Landscapes and Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Italy
Book by John R. Patterson; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects:	Cities And Towns, Ancient--Italy, Central, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Italy, Southern, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Rome, Italy--Antiquities, Roman, Land Settlement--Italy, Central--History, Land Settlement--Italy, Southern--History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D, Rome--Social Conditions, Urbanization--Rome
...to help the ailing city of Cosa. Both Samnium and Lucania were far from Rome and character...Hannibal and then the Social War. In Samnium the pattern of decline in rural sites...villas. One significant difference between Samnium and Lucania was, however, the density...

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Testing the Legend: Horace, Silius Italicus and the Case of Marcus Atilius Regulus
Journal article by Gareth Williams; Antichthon, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects:	Diplomatic & consular services
...3.1, Flor. 1.13.2) Tarentum and to Venafrum, not so far removed from the Marsian region near the lacus Fucinus in Samnium. And yet in fighting for Rome, the Marsian and Apulian are symbols of the very process of cultural interaction and Roman...

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Samnium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAMNIUM sam ne m, ancient country of central and S Italy, mostly in the S Apennines. It was E of Campania and Latium and NE of Apulia...

Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...advance was checked about the same time by the Samnites (see Samnium ), who had adapted the civilization of their Greek neighbors...and Campania, Apulia and Calabria, Lucania and Bruttium, Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, Etruria, Cispadane Gaul, Liguria, Venetia...

Benevento
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...It is a trade center for wine and tobacco. It is basically an impoverished area with little industry. A leading town of Samnium, Benevento became under the Romans an important trade center on the Appian Way. It was the capital of a powerful Lombard...

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was Cnaeus Papirius Carbo . The war ended just after the battle of the Colline Gate, a last desperate foray by Marians from Samnium; Sulla captured and massacred 8,000 prisoners. He had himself named dictator (82 b.c.) and began the systematic butchery...

Lucania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ancient region of S Italy. It was bounded on the east by the Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto) and by Apulia, on the north by Samnium and Campania, on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and on the south by Bruttium. Italic tribes and Greek colonists lived there...

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