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Battle of Asculum, the Glossary

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The Battle of Asculum took place near Asculum (modern Ascoli Satriano) in 279 BC between the Roman Republic under the command of the consuls Publius Decius Mus and Publius Sulpicius Saverrio, and the forces of King Pyrrhus of Epirus.^[1]

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270s BC conflicts
279 BC
3rd century BC in the Roman Republic
Ancient Apulia
Battles of the Pyrrhic War
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Acarnania

Acarnania (Akarnanía) is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth.

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Aetolia

Aetolia (Aitōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.

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Agema

Agema (ἄγημα), plural agemata (αγήματα) is a term to describe a military detachment, used for a special purpose, such as guarding high valued targets.

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Ambracia

Ambracia (Ἀμβρακία, occasionally Ἀμπρακία, Ampracia) was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

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Ancient Thessaly

Thessaly or Thessalia (Attic Greek: Θεσσαλία, Thessalía or Θετταλία, Thettalía) was one of the traditional regions of Ancient Greece.

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Apulia

Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.

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Arpi

Arpi (Ἄρποι), Argyrippa (Ἀργύριππα), and Argos Hippium (Ἄργος Ἵππιον) was an ancient city of Apulia, Italy, 16 miles (26 km) west of the sea coast, and 2 miles (3.5 km) north of modern Foggia (next to the modern Arpi Nova).

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Ascoli Satriano

Ascoli Satriano (Àsculë) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.

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Athamanians

Athamanians or Athamanes (Athamanes) were an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited south-eastern Epirus and west Thessaly.

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Battle of Beneventum (275 BC)

The Battle of Beneventum (275 BC) was the last battle of the Pyrrhic War. Battle of Asculum and battle of Beneventum (275 BC) are 270s BC conflicts, 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic and battles of the Pyrrhic War.

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Battle of Heraclea

The Battle of Heraclea took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. Battle of Asculum and Battle of Heraclea are 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic and battles of the Pyrrhic War.

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Bruttians

The Bruttians (alternative spelling, Brettii) (Bruttii) were an ancient Italic people.

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Caltrop

A caltrop (also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap, galtrap, calthrop, jackrock or crow's footBattle of Alesia (Caesar's conquest of Gaul in 52 BC), Battlefield Detectives program, (2006), rebroadcast: 2008-09-08 on History Channel International (13:00-14:00 hrs EDST); Note: No mention of name caltrop at all, but illustrated and given as battle key to defend Roman lines of circumvallation per recent digs evidence.) is an area denial weapon made up of usually four, but possibly more, sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron).

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Campanians

The Campanians (also Campani) were an ancient Italic tribe, part of the Osci nation, speaking an Oscan language.

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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Cassius Dio

Lucius Cassius Dio, also known as Dio Cassius (Δίων Κάσσιος), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin.

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Chaon

Chaon (Χάων, gen.: Χάονος) was a Trojan hero and the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians in Virgil's Aeneid.

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Daunians

The Daunians (Daunii) were an Iapygian tribe that inhabited northern Apulia in classical antiquity.

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Decia gens

The gens Decia was a plebeian family of high antiquity, which became illustrious in Roman history by the example of its members sacrificing themselves for the preservation of their country.

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Devotio

In ancient Roman religion, the devotio was an extreme form of votum in which a Roman general vowed to sacrifice his own life in battle along with the enemy to chthonic gods in exchange for a victory.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος ἈλεξάνδρουἉλικαρνασσεύς,; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus.

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Epirus

Epirus is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania.

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Epirus (ancient state)

Epirus (Epirote Greek: Ἄπειρος,; Attic Greek: Ἤπειρος) was an ancient Greek kingdom, and later republic, located in the geographical region of Epirus, in parts of north-western Greece and southern Albania. Home to the ancient Epirotes, the state was bordered by the Aetolian League to the south, Ancient Thessaly and Ancient Macedonia to the east, and Illyrian tribes to the north.

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Frentani

The Frentani were an Italic tribe occupying the tract on the southeast coast of the Italian peninsula from the Apennines to the Adriatic, and from the frontiers of Apulia to those of the Marrucini.

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Frontinus

Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 – 103 AD) was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD.

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Grappling hook

A grappling hook or grapnel is a device that typically has multiple hooks (known as claws or flukes) attached to a rope or cable; it is thrown, dropped, sunk, projected, or fastened directly by hand to where at least one hook may catch and hold on to objects.

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Hieronymus of Cardia

Hieronymus of Cardia (Ἱερώνυμος ὁ Καρδιανός) was a Greek general and historian from Cardia in Thrace, and a contemporary of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC).

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Italic peoples

The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Latins (Italic tribe)

The Latins (Latin: Latinus (m.), Latina (f.), Latini (m. pl.)), sometimes known as the Latials or Latians, were an Italic tribe which included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people).

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Lucania

Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy, corresponding to the modern-day region of Basilicata.

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Lucanians

The Lucanians (Lucani) were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages.

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Macedonian phalanx

The Macedonian phalanx (Μακεδονική φάλαγξ) was an infantry formation developed by Philip II from the classical Greek phalanx, of which the main innovation was the use of the sarissa, a 6-metre pike.

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Marrucini

The Marrucini were an Italic tribe that occupied a small strip of territory around the ancient Teate (modern Chieti), on the east coast of Abruzzo, Italy, limited by the Aterno and Foro Rivers.

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Marsala

Marsala (Maissala local; Lilybaeum) is an Italian comune located in the Province of Trapani in the westernmost part of Sicily.

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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).

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Paeligni

The Paeligni or Peligni were an Italic tribe who lived in the Valle Peligna, in what is now Abruzzo, central Italy.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Publius Decius Mus (consul 279 BC)

Publius Decius Mus was a Roman politician and general of the plebeian gens Decia.

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Punic people

The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age.

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Pyrrhic victory

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.

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Pyrrhic War

The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC) was largely fought between the Roman Republic and Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who had been asked by the people of the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy to help them in their war against the Romans. Battle of Asculum and Pyrrhic War are 270s BC conflicts and 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic.

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Pyrrhus of Epirus

Pyrrhus (Πύρρος; 319/318–272 BC) was a Greek king and statesman of the Hellenistic period.

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Roman consul

A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (to 27 BC).

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Roman legion

The Roman legion (legiō), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Asculum

Also known as Ascalum, Battle Asculum, Battle of Asculum (279 BC), Battle of Asculum (279 BCE), Battle of Ausculum.

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Battle of Asculum, the Glossary

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See also

270s BC conflicts

279 BC

3rd century BC in the Roman Republic

Ancient Apulia

Battles of the Pyrrhic War

Military history of Apulia

References