Caius Flaminius
Caius Flaminius , d. 217 BC, Roman statesman and general. In his tribuneship (232) he sponsored an agrarian law for the benefit of the plebeians and, as praetor (227), governed Sicily successfully. While consul (223) he campaigned against the Insubres and although chosen master of the horse (221) was barred from office by the occurrence of a bad omen. As censor (220) he constructed the Circus Flaminius and the Flaminian Way. In 218 he was the only senator to support the tribune Claudius in prohibiting senators and senators' sons from possession of seagoing vessels except for the transportation of the produce of their own estates. As consul again (217) he was a leader against Hannibal in the invasion of Italy, and he was killed in battle at Trasimene. See Punic Wars .
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Memories are made ofaera.(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 3/7/2005; 389 words
; ...guidance a lot of my past existence was revealed. It seems I was a foot soldier in the Punic Wars, until I realised I didn't know what the hell the Punic Wars were and had to collect my stuff and go home. It also appears I was once a minstrel...
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Review: Books: Carthaginian chaos
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/9/2000; ; 294 words
; ...exacting critics. Now Leckie has completed his trilogy about the Punic wars. Carthage describes how that city was finally devastated...tree in the way of a new road". Readers who never studied the Punic wars might find the narrative hard to follow, but the book does...
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Pomegranate tree steeped in history and romance
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 8/24/2007; ; 550 words
; ...Carthage or Punica - the Roman name for Carthage - during the Punic Wars (264 to 146 BCE). Pliny the Elder, termed the tree "malum...Latin, "pomum granatum" was "apple of many seeds." So, the Punic Wars not only brought elephants over the Alps, they also brought...
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Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...from the 6th century BC; its colossal struggle with Rome, the Punic Wars, beginning in 264 BC and ending with the razing of the city...centuries through to the propagandist Roman accounts of the Punic Wars. The book is accessibly written and superbly translated, with...
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Punic on the streets of Rome
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 6/4/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Carthage were involved in the running hostilities known as The Punic Wars. During this time, a great general emerged. Hannibal crossed...of Ross Leckie's new novel, the last in a trilogy about the Punic Wars. Compiled by a fictional Greek exile named Polybius, the book...
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Historical Notes: Why did Hannibal not march on Rome?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/18/1999; ; 604 words
; THE THREE Punic Wars, which lasted for nearly 100 years, from 264 to 146 BC, were a struggle...with the destruction of Carthage. Nigel Bagnall is the author of `The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage and the struggle for the Mediterranean' (Pimlico...
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Which of the world's wars lasted longest?(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/12/1996; 442 words
; ...territory except Calais, which it gave up in 1558. The three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage lasted from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C...the longest of the three individual wars was 23 years. The Punic Wars destroyed Rome's strongest rival and set the stage for Roman...
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Roman military equipment; from the Punic Wars to the fall of Rome, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 193 words
; 9781842171592 Roman military equipment; from the Punic Wars to the fall of Rome, 2d ed. Bishop, M. C. and J. C. N. Coulston. Oxbow Books 2006 321 pages $40.00 Paperback UF535 Aiming for a...
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Empire transformed: Britain in the American classical imagination, 1758-1783.
Magazine article from: Early American Studies; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...which a reluctant, virtuous Rome was forced to engage in three Punic wars, before finally annihilating the avaricious, commercial Carthage...world domination. Thus, as one scholar has commented, the Punic wars became a dramatic if not always revealing way for the rivals...
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The Peloponnesian War; Athens, Sparta and the struggle for Greece.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 100 words
; ...occasionally mention important events taking place simultaneously in other theaters when it helps explain the context. He completed this companion to his The Punic Wars two months before he died unexpectedly. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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agrarian laws
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...early agrarian laws were the Licinian Rogations (367 BC) of Caius Licinius Calvus Stolo (see under Licinius ), which limited...on public land. These laws fell into disuse. About 233 BC, Caius Flaminius succeeded in assigning some public lands to poor citizens...commission, thus rendering the law ...
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