Year: 1983
Type: article
Abstract: Lee n a Pie t i 1 a-Cast re n vhe first t:11m.e•t:he Romans had come into confrlict with the Greek world was dur~ing the war they waged against Tarentum and Pyrrhus.After this war in 272 a treaty was concluded between the Romans and the Tarent'ines which was S1t:iH quite favourable ~towards the lat1ter.It was not before the Second Punic War that the Ro:m.ana:ttittude rto the conquered Greek c~ties changed: in 211 M. Claudius MarceHus iet his soldiers plunder Syracuse after a 1long siege, 1 and two years later the soldiers under the com~mand of Q. Fabius Maximus ptlundered Tarentum causing such damage that the c;ty never reaHy recovered.2 vhe first ha[£ of the second century BC signified the high tide of ~the wars the Romans waged on aotual Greek soi 1 1.The first rime the Roma~ns came into contact wi1th the Greek seas was in 211, when M. VaJer~ius laevinus com,manded their Heet of 25 ships.3 He still seems to have been a real sa:i1or whose career included several other remarkable achievements: In 214 he commanded a fleet against PhiEp V along the I1Jyr1ian coast.4 As consul in 210 he conquered Agrigentum, thus compieting MarceUus' conquest of Sioi[y.5 In 208 he bea;t a Punic flee:t6 and in 205 he brought Magna Mater from Phrygi:an Pessinus to Rome.7 On his authority an agreement was rea:ched in 211 1 Liv.25,31,5-10.31,31,8. 2 Liv.27,.16,7-9.Plut.Fab.22,3-6.3 Liv.26,24, 1. 10.4 Liv.24,40,5-17.5 Liv.26,40,7-13.6 Liv.27,29,7-.8. 7 Liv.29',11,3-8.8 Liv.26,24,11.C. Nicolet, Il mestiere di cittadino nell'antica Roma, Roma 19'80, 149. 9 Li V. 3 2 ,~16' 1 7.
Author: Leena Pietilä-Castrén
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W32839792