Chronology of the Samnite Wars
- Chronology of the Samnite Wars
The military campaigns of the Samnite Wars were an important stage in Roman expansion in the Italian pensinsula.
Background
The Samnites were a group of hill-tribes occupying the central Apennines. In the mid-fourth century they began to expand into the territories of their neighbors, especially in Campania and the Liris valley. At first, they had enemies in common with Rome in the Celts and Volsci, and this commonality of purpose led to the formation of a peace treaty with Rome in 354. [Livy 7.19.4; Diod. 16.45.8; Salmon 1967, 191.] Once these threats were removed, Samnium expansion brought them into conflict with Rome's growing influence in central Italy.
First Samnite War (343-341 BC)
Second Samnite War (326-304 BC)
The Second Samnite War broke out in 326 B.C. over
ee also
List of Roman battles
ources
*Harvard reference|author=T.R.S. Broughton|title=Magistrates of the Roman Republic|publisher=Case Western Reserve U.P.|date=1950-1, 1986|
*Harvard reference|author=T.J. Cornell|title=The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to thee Punic Wars|publisher=Routledge|date=1995|
*Harvard reference|author=E.T. Salmon|title=Samnium and the Samnites|publisher=Cambridge U.P.|date=1967
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