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    Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome. An oppidum was founded by people of Latial culture (11th century BC or the beginning of the...
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    settlement of Antium, over the centuries, was certainly present in the area of modern Anzio (the Capo d'Anzio). In the Roman era the territory of Antium almost...
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  • Xenagoras was likely writing at a time that Antium was being assimilated into the identity of Rome, Antium having been the capital of the Volsci people...
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    According to a theory, the town would be a direct survival of the Roman Antium, the territory of which almost entirely corresponded to Nettuno and modern...
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    fire Nero may not have been in the city but 35 miles away at his villa in Antium, and possibly returned to the city before the fire was out. Publius Cornelius...
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    dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68. Nero was born at Antium in AD 37, the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger...
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    on the east, and stretching roughly from Norba and Cora in the north to Antium in the south. Rivals of Rome for several hundred years, their territories...
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    mother were honored with the title of Augusta by Nero. She was born in Antium on 21 January 63 and later died five months after, of an unknown illness...
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  • between the Roman Republic and multiple cities in Latium: Tibur, Praeneste, Antium, Aricia, Lanuvium, and Velitrae. The Roman army was led by the consuls Gaius...
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    Roman emperor Nero in the 1st century AD. Some others were at Subiaco and Antium. Archaeological excavations reveal the presence of a lead water pipe bearing...
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  • Volsci from the coastal town of Antium. The Roman army pursued the Volsci to the town of Longula (to the north of Antium). The Romans took Longula, and...
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    Domitius was wealthy, but apparently he and Agrippina chose to live between Antium and Rome. Domitius was consul in AD 32 and appointed by Tiberius as a commissioner...
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  • the 6th century BC, Velitrae and Norba in the 5th century BC, and Ostia, Antium, and Tarracina in the late 4th century. In this first period of colonisation...
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    the Romans were focused on the siege, another Volscian force arrived from Antium and attacked the Romans, and at the same time the soldiers of Corioli launched...
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  • (Ἀρδείας), who built three cities and called them after their own names (Rome, Antium, and Ardea). Martin P. Nilsson speculates that this foundation story became...
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    7 mi) to the south of Rome, midway between the Tiber river at Ostia and Antium. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on...
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    the Volscian of the town of Antium gathered an army which included Hernici and Latin forces near Satricum, not far from Antium. A battle with the Romans...
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    the demise of Caligula's nephew, the Emperor Nero. Caligula was born in Antium on 31 August AD 12, the third of six surviving children of Germanicus and...
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    Allies landed on the coast of Italy at the Anzio-Nettuno area – ancient Antium – which was midway between Ostia and Terracina. They found that the place...
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  • name derived from the Roman colony of Antium, may refer to: Anteias or Antias, mythological founder of Antium Lucius Valerius Antias, Roman general Valerius...
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    Palatine Hill. Seven other villas are linked with Domitian at Tusculum, Antium, Sabaudia, Vicarello, Caieta, Terracina and Baiae. Only that at Sabaudia...
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    time his health was so weakened that his fellow Christians sent him to Antium to recuperate and he was given a pension by Pope Victor I. In 199, Callixtus...
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    it happened that Rome was destroyed by fire, while Nero was stationed at Antium. (...) Nero could not by any means he tried escape from the charge that...
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  • the Via Appia, that from Tusculum, that from Alba Longa, and that from Antium; so necessarily here would be a halting-place, which took its name from...
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    temple to Venus Calva "very doubtful"; see "At the midway between Ostia and Antium lies Lavinium that has a sanctuary of Aphrodite common to all Latin nations...
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  • original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2021. Nero at this time was at Antium, and did not return to Rome until the fire approached his house{{cite book}}:...
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    on the coast of Latium, Italy, at the southeast extremity of the Bay of Antium, on the road to Circeii. The name also belongs to a medieval coastal tower...
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  • Quinctius was victorious and pushed his advantage by leading his army towards Antium, the capital of the Volsci. The town surrendered after a short siege, as...
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  • from Arcadia with the support of Argos. Argos regains control of Tiryns. Antium is captured by Roman forces. Zhou Zhen Ding Wang becomes the twenty-eighth...
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  • exiled from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out Aufidius in the Volscian capital of Antium and offers to let Aufidius kill him, to spite the country that banished...
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