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Marsi
The Marsi were an Italic people of ancient Italy, whose chief centre was Marruvium, on the eastern shore of Lake Fucinus (which was drained in the time of Claudius). The area in which they lived is now called Marsica. They originally spoke a language now termed Marsian which is attested by several inscriptions. History The Marsi were first mentioned as members of a confederacy with the Vestini, Paeligni and Marrucini. They joined the Samnites in 308 BC, and, on their submission, became allies of Rome in 304 BC. After a short-lived revolt two years later, for which they were punished by the loss of territory, they were readmitted to the Roman alliance and remained faithful down to the Social War, their contingent being always regarded as the flower of the Italian forces. The Latin colony of Alba Fucens near the northwest corner of the lake was founded in the adjoining Aequian territory in 303 BC so that, from the beginning of the 3rd century, the Marsians we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsica
Marsica is a geographical and historical region in Abruzzo, central Italy, including 37 ''comuni'' in the province of L'Aquila. It is located between the plain of the former Fucine Lake, the Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the plain of Carsoli and the valley of Sulmona. The area takes its name from the Marsi, an Osco-Umbrian Italic people, and then from the Latin adjective ''marsicus''. In the center of the area there is the Fucino former lake, dried up in 1877, surrounded by parks and nature reserves. Avezzano is the most populous city of the territory. Marsica has about 130,000 inhabitants as of 2019. ''Comuni'' The Marsica includes 37 ''comuni'': Aielli, Avezzano, Balsorano, Bisegna, Canistro, Capistrello, Cappadocia (AQ), Cappadocia, Carsoli, Castellafiume, Celano, Cerchio (AQ), Cerchio, Civitella Roveto, Civita d'Antino, Collarmele, Collelongo, Gioia dei Marsi, Lecce nei Marsi, Luco dei Marsi, Magliano de' Marsi, Massa d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social War (91–87 BC)
The Social War (from Latin , "war of the allies"), also called the Italian War or the Marsic War, was fought largely from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of its autonomous allies () in Roman Italy, Italy. Some of the allies held out until 87 BC. The war started in late 91 BC, with the rebellion of Ascoli Piceno, Asculum. Other Italian towns quickly declared for the rebels and the Roman response was initially confused. By the new year, the Romans had levied huge armies to crush the rebels but found initial headway difficult; by the end of the year, however, they were able to cut the Italian rebels into two, isolating them into northern and southern sectors. The Italian rebels attempted to invade Etruria and Umbria at the start of 89 BC but were defeated. In the south, they were defeated by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who for his victories would win a consulship the next year. The Romans retained the initiative and by 88 BC, the conflict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsian Language
The Marsian language is the extinct language of the Marsi. It is classified by the Linguist List as one of the Umbrian group of languages. Phonology Their language differs very slightly from Roman Latin of that date; for apparently contracted forms, such as instead of , may really only be a matter of spelling. In final syllables, the diphthongs ''ai'', ''ei'', and ''oi'' all appear as ''e''. On the other hand, the older form of the name of the tribe (dat. plur. = Lat. ) shows its derivation and exhibits the assibilation of ''-tio-'' into ''-tso-'', proper to the Oscan language but strange to classical Latin. Corpus The Marsian inscriptions are dated by the style of the alphabet from about 300 to 150 BC (the middle Roman Republic). Conway lists nine inscriptions, one from Ortona and two each from Marruvium, Lecce Lecce (; ) is a city in southern Italy and capital of the province of Lecce. It is on the Salentine Peninsula, at the heel of the Italian Peninsul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsi
The Marsi were an Italic people of ancient Italy, whose chief centre was Marruvium, on the eastern shore of Lake Fucinus (which was drained in the time of Claudius). The area in which they lived is now called Marsica. They originally spoke a language now termed Marsian which is attested by several inscriptions. History The Marsi were first mentioned as members of a confederacy with the Vestini, Paeligni and Marrucini. They joined the Samnites in 308 BC, and, on their submission, became allies of Rome in 304 BC. After a short-lived revolt two years later, for which they were punished by the loss of territory, they were readmitted to the Roman alliance and remained faithful down to the Social War, their contingent being always regarded as the flower of the Italian forces. The Latin colony of Alba Fucens near the northwest corner of the lake was founded in the adjoining Aequian territory in 303 BC so that, from the beginning of the 3rd century, the Marsians we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Benedetto Dei Marsi
San Benedetto dei Marsi (, ; ) is a ''comune ''and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is on the eastern shore of the dried Lake Fucino, from the remains of another ancient site, Alba Fucens. Near the town is the stream Giovenco, identified as the ancient stream known as ''Pitonius''. History The ancient ''Marruvium ''was the chief city of the Italic tribe of the Marsi; ''Marruvii ''or ''Marrubii '' is another form of the name of the Marsi, and was used by Virgil as an ethnic appellation. In accordance with this, Silius Italicus also describes Marruvium as deriving its name from a certain Marrus, who is evidently only an eponymous hero of the Marsi. There is no account of Marruvium, however, previous to the Roman conquest of the Marsic territory; but under the Roman Empire it was a flourishing municipal town; it is noticed as such both by Strabo and Pliny, and in inscriptions we find it called "splendidissima civitas Marsorum Marruvium" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunnels Of Claudius
The Tunnels of Claudius () consist principally of a 6 km-long tunnel (or ''emissary'') together with several monumental service tunnels which Ancient Rome, Roman Emperor Claudius had built by 52 AD to partially drain the Fucine Lake in Abruzzo, protecting riparian villages from floods and creating agricultural land. It was a massive engineering project involving 30,000 workmen and slaves who completed it in just 11 years, and considered among the grandest in antiquity. It was the longest tunnel ever built until the inauguration of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel in 1871. The lake water flowed under Mount Salviano and emptied into the Liri, Liri River beneath the present town of Capistrello. Without regular maintenance the emissary often became clogged, and the lake returned to its original size with regular flooding. It was only in 1854 when Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Alessandro Torlonia renovated the tunnels mostly following the Roman ones that knowledge of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angitia
Angitia was a List of Roman deities, goddess among the Marsi, the Paeligni and other Osco-Umbrian languages, Oscan-Umbrian peoples of central Italy. She was associated in antiquity with snake-charmers who claimed her as their ancestor. Roman mythology, Roman interpretations probably obscure her Marsian significance. Angitia's myths vary. According to Gnaeus Gellius (late 2nd century BC), Angitia was one of the three daughters of Aeëtes, along with Medea and Circe, two of the most famed sorceresses of Greek myth. Circe, as widely known from the ''Odyssey'', practiced transforming spells; Medea ended up in Italy, where her son ruled over the Marsi. Angitia lived in the area around the Fucine lake and specialized in curing snakebites. Angitia is attested by inscriptions in the territory of the Marsi and elsewhere in the Apennines#Central Apennines, Central Apennines. She is named in three inscriptions from Luco dei Marsi, in antiquity known as ''Lucus Angitiae'', "Sacred Grove of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luco Dei Marsi
Luco dei Marsi is a ''comune'' and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central-eastern Italy. It is part of the Marsica. The town was probably founded by the Roman Emperor Claudius to house workers in the drying of the ''Lacus Fucinus'' (Lake Fucino). The name derives from a nearby wood, '' Lucus Angitiae'', "Sacred Grove of Angitia", referring to a divine sorceress of the Marsi Italic tribe. During the Middle Ages it was a fief of the D'Aquino and then of the Colonna family The House of Colonna is an Italian noble family, forming part of the papal nobility. It played a pivotal role in Middle Ages, medieval and Roman Renaissance, Renaissance Rome, supplying one pope (Pope Martin V, Martin V), 23 cardinals and many ot .... References Marsica {{Abruzzo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucus Angitiae
Lucus Angitiae was an Italic and Roman town and sanctuary with temple of the goddess Angitia, the ruins of which are located in the comune of Luco dei Marsi in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The original name of the site was linked to the word ''lux'' (light), from which ''lucus'', or the clearing in the woods, is derived as a traditional name for an ancient sanctuary. Angitia was venerated by the Marsi who lived on the shores of Lake Fucino. History According to legend, the inhabitants were skilled preparers of antidotes against snake poisons and connoisseurs of the herbs of the surrounding mountains, starting with Umbro who was killed by Aeneas in the war between the Italians and the Trojans, as narrated in the Aeneid. Archaeology has shown that the site can be traced to the Bronze Age. During the Iron Age the fortified area developed over 14 hectares, walled with polygonal masonry and with two gates. The acropolis on the overhanging Mount Penna was incorporated in the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Poppaedius Silo
Quintus Poppaedius Silo (sometimes seen as ''Pompaedius'') (died 88 BC) was a leader of the Italian tribe of the Marsi and one of the leaders of the Italian rebels during the Social War against Rome. Poppaedius was called the 'heart and soul' of the rebellion. He was a friend of Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger. A story told by Plutarch tells of Silo making a visit to his friend Marcus Livius and meeting the children of the house. In a playful mood he asked the children's support for his cause. All of them nodded and smiled except Cato the Younger, who stared at the guest with most suspicious looks. Silo demanded an answer from him and seeing no response took Cato and hung him by the feet out of the window. Even then, Cato would not say anything. In 91 BC, Poppaedius led 10,000 Marsi in a march on Rome to support Drusus' pro-Italian legislation. They were met by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, the Pontifex Maximus, who persuaded them to go back. After Drusus's murder, the Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fucine Lake
The Fucine Lake ( or ) was a large endorheic karst lake between above sea level and surrounded by the Monte Sirente- Monte Velino mountain ranges to the north-northeast, Mount Salviano to the west, Vallelonga to the south, and the Valle del Giovenco to the east-southeast. Located in western Abruzzo in Central Italy, the town of Avezzano lies to the northwest, Ortucchio to the southeast, and Trasacco to the southwest of the historic lake. Once the third largest lake in Italy after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore, it was finally drained in 1878. The plain is a geographical depression of tectonic origin formed during the Apennine orogeny between the Pliocene and Quaternary. To the west, Fucino borders the Palentini plains, while the Giovenco, Vallelonga, and Roveto valleys converge towards the Fucine plain. Due to the absence of outlets and the sudden variations in the water level causing floods or unhealthy drying, it was the subject of numerous attempts at regulation. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsus (other)
Marsus is a Roman family name, and the Latinisation of the surnames ''Marso'' and ''Marsi''. ''Marsus'' may refer to: People * Domitius Marsus, Latin poet of ancient Rome; friend of Virgil and Tibullus * Gaius Vibius Marsus, proconsul of the Roman Empire during the first century * Marsus (king), Latin name of mythical Germanic king Mers, aka Marso * Paulus Marsus (1440–1484), Renaissance humanist and poet known primarily for his commentary on the ''Fasti'' of Ovid * Petrus Marsus (1442–1512), aka Peter Marso, Renaissance scholar who wrote a commentary on Silius Italicus' epic poem ''Punica'' * Johannes Harmonius Marsus (–), Renaissance humanist and poet known for his plays Other uses * Marsus municipium, the Latin alias of San Benedetto dei Marsi, a ''comune'' and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy * '' Spectamen marsus'', a Pacific sea snail species with a streaked top shell See also * Marsi (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
