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Appian and writes
Appian writes that she met Antony in Athens, and he was upset with her involvement in the war.
Appian writes that Pinnes asked for the aid of the Romans but nothing seems to have come of it.
Appian writes that they fearfully surrendered to Augustus.
Appian ( 95 – 165 ) writes that the Ardiaei were destroyed by the Autariatae and that in contrast to the Autariatae had maritime power.

Appian and known
The new road is the Via Appia Nuova (" New Appian Way ") as opposed to the old section, now known as Via Appia Antica.
* Caecilia Metella ( daughter of Metellus Creticus ), known for her tomb on the Appian Way in Rome
Little is known of the life of Appian of Alexandria.
Herodes Atticus and Regilla controlled a large area of land around the Third Mile of the Appian Way outside of Rome, which was known as the " Triopio " ( from Triopas, King of Thessaly ).
The Appian Way is a street in Burwood, known for its architecturally designed Federation-style homes.
Appian speaks of a river between Metapontum and Tarentum of the same name, by which he probably means the Bradanus, which may have been commonly known as the river of Metapontum.

Appian and Roman
* Appian, Roman History
* Appian, “ The Civil Wars, Book I ” in Appian ’ s Roman History, Translated by Horace White.
The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia ) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.
* 312 BC – One of the earliest paved roads, the Appian Way, is built ; the Romans eventually built over 50, 000 miles of paved Roman roads
* The Roman censor, Appius Claudius Caecus, a patrician, enters office and begins construction of the Appian Way ( the Via Appia ) between Rome and Capua.
* Appian: Roman Civil Wars
Appian, Dio Cassius, and Plutarch each report that city was once again destroyed in the Roman Civil Wars, circa 42 BC, by Brutus, but Appian notes that it was rebuilt under Mark Antony.
Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.
In Roman mythology, Appias was one of the Crinaeae, a naiad who lived in the Appian Well outside the temple to Venus Genitrix in the Roman Forum.
The Roman catacombs, of which there are forty in the suburbs, were built along the consular roads out of Rome, such as the Appian way, the via Ostiense, the via Labicana, the via Tiburtina, and the via Nomentana.
There is no doubt that Tauromenium continued to form a part of the kingdom of Syracuse until the death of Hieron, and that it only passed under the government of Rome when the whole island of Sicily was reduced to a Roman province ; but we have scarcely any account of the part it took during the Second Punic War, though it would appear, from a hint in Appian, that it submitted to Marcellus on favorable terms ; and it is probable that it was on that occasion it obtained the peculiarly favored position it enjoyed under the Roman dominion.
Alternatively, on the other side of the Apennines, highway 7 ( the old Roman Appian Way ) followed along the west coast but south of Rome ran into the Pontine Marshes which the Germans had flooded.
During the retreat, the Neapolitan Reggimento di Lucania fortified an old Roman villa, the Fortino di San Andrea, located about a mile north of Itri, where a pass carries the Appian Way over the Auruncian Mountains.
) Appian describes the use of the olive-branch as a gesture of peace by the enemies of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus in the Numantine War and by Hasdrubal of Carthage.
The first Roman milestones appeared on the Appian way.
* Appian Roman History, book XII: Mithridateios
* Appian, Roman Civil Wars.
According to Appian, Viriatus was one of the few who escaped when Galba, the Roman consul, massacred the flos iuventutis, the flower of the young Lusitanian warriors, in 150 BC.
However, it is certain that Appian was born around the year AD 95 in Alexandria, the capital of Roman Egypt.
Since his parents were Roman citizens capable of paying for their son ’ s education, it can be determined that Appian belonged to the wealthy upper classes.

Appian and History
Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55
Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian satrap of Alexander, reconquered most of Alexander's former empire and put under his own authority the eastern territories as far as Bactria and the Indus ( Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55 ), until in 305 BCE he entered into conflict with Chandragupta:
In the introduction to his Roman History, he boasts “ that he pleaded cases in Rome before the emperors .” The emperors he claims to have addressed must have been either Hadrian or Marcus Aurelius and definitely Antoninus Pius, for Appian remained in Egypt at least until the end of the reign of Trajan ( 117 ).
Seleucus I Nicator, the Macedonian satrap of the Asian portion of Alexander's former empire, conquered and put under his own authority eastern territories as far as Bactria and the Indus ( Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55 ), until in 305 BCE he entered in a confrontation with Chandragupta:
Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55
* Appian, History of Rome: The Sicilian Wars.
* Appian, History of Rome: The Punic Wars.
* Appian: Roman History
Appian, who began writing his Roman History under Antonius Pius, Roman Emperor from 138 to 161, noted: “ ut going beyond these rivers in places they rule some of the Celts over the Rhine and the Getae over the Danube, whom they call Dacians ”.

Appian and which
According to Appian the senator Cato the Elder usually finished his speeches on any subject in the Senate with the phrase ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, which means " Furthermore, it is my opinion that Carthage must be destroyed ".
This was Lord Burlington's attempt to symbolise the Appian Way which led to ancient Rome.
Plutarch records that Hannibal ranked Pyrrhus as the greatest commander the world had ever seen, though Appian gives a different version of the story, in which Hannibal placed him second after Alexander the Great.
Some 32, 000 French troops invaded Naples in January, in three columns under General Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, later a Marshal of France ; about 12, 000 men marched down the Adriatic coast, 15, 000 more attacked down the Apennines, which form the spine of Italy, and General Jean Louis Reynier, later a Marshal of France, led about 10, 000 troops, down the Appian Way.
Appian has the battle start on the Seleucid left with a failed attack by the scythed chariots which disrupted the Seleucid cavalry on that wing.
Appian and Cassius Dio describe Fulvia as being involved in the violent proscriptions, which were used to destroy enemies and gain badly needed funds to secure control of Rome.
Appian most likely used this structure to facilitate his readers ' orientation through the sequence of events, which occur in different places and are united only by their relationship to Rome.
Between the Republican age, and the Imperial Age, and the opening of the Appian Way, many patrician summer residences were established starting with the Villa of Clodius at Ercolano, attributed to Publius Clodius Pulcher at which Clodius himself was assassinated in 54 BC.
Inscriptions offer evidence on the following Roman monuments: an aqueduct constructed by Hadrian and restored by Alexander Severus bears a dedicatory inscription at Arapaj, a short distance from Durazzo: ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, 1-709 ); the Roman temple of Minerva ; the Temple of Diana ( CIL III, 1-602 ), which is perhaps the one mentioned by Appian ( BCiv.
In the centre of the Appian Way is a communal reserve which was converted into a lawn tennis club.
There are relatively few sites using these domains, but examples include ESPN ( es. pn ), Appian Corporation ( ap. pn ) and Groupon ( gr. pn ), which each use the domain for URL shortening services.
Not once does Cicero mention the possibility that the two met by chance ( which was the conclusion of both Asconius and Appian ).
For the wealthy middle class, smaller mausolea lined the roads from cities, many of which still remain in the Tombs of Via Latina, along the Appian Way, and elsewhere.
The BBC also produced a Home Service dramatisation, broadcast on Children's Hour, in about 1956 with Marius Goring in the lead role, which used Ottorino Respighi's music " Pines of the Appian Way.
Unlike most other Illyrian kings of which there is only sparse data, Scerdilaidas is mentioned in the writings of the historian Appian, Livy and Polybius, and in their chronicles of the Roman and Greek wars.
The main road connection is the modern SS7, which bears the name of the ancient Appian Way.
Regio I took its name from the Porta Capena (" Gate to Capua "), a gate through the Servian Walls which the Appian Way takes to get into the city.
The presence of the former was because it was the starting-point of a canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pontine Marshes, and was used instead of it at the time of Strabo and Horace ( see Appian way ).

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