Pictures in old Latin books returned to her: the Appian Way Today, the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine.

The Appian Way ( Via Appia ), a road connecting Ancient Rome to the southern parts of Italy, remains usable even today.

Callixtus was the deacon to whom Pope Zephyrinus entrusted the burial chambers along the Appian Way.

He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus, on the Appian Way in Rome.

Livy mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on them, at times long before the first paved road — the Appian Way.

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To frighten other slaves from revolting, Crassus crucified 6, 000 of Spartacus ' men along the Appian Way from Capua to Rome.

Emperor Gallienus is deified and buried in a family tomb on the Appian Way.

Claudius Gothicus spoke the truth, as he had the deceased emperor deified, and had him buried in a family tomb on the Appian Way.

Remains of the Appian Way in Rome, near Quarto Miglio

The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia ) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.

The Appian Way was used as a main route for military supplies since its construction for that purpose in the mid-4th century BC.

The main part of the Appian Way was started and finished in 312 BC.

A new Appian Way was built in parallel with the old one in 1784 as far as the Alban Hills region.

The new road is the Via Appia Nuova (" New Appian Way ") as opposed to the old section, now known as Via Appia Antica.

The old Appian Way close to Rome is now a free tourist attraction.

The construction of Rome's ring road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA, in 1951 caused the Appian Way to be cut in two.

The Appian Way as it appeared in Giovanni Battista Piranesi | Piranesi's imagination ( 1756 ).

* Appian Way Regional Park

The Appian Way: From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages.

* Documentary Film about the Sassi di Matera and the Appian Way, Roba Forestiera, 44 min., 2004

* New York Times article on condition of Appian Way in modern times

* Robert Kaster's " Advice for the Traveler " excerpted from The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

It is located about some 800 m from Porta San Sebastiano, where the Via Ardeatina branches off the Appian Way, on the site where, according to the legend, Saint Peter met Jesus while the former was fleeing persecution in Rome.

Nevertheless, according to Appian, the troops ' fighting spirit improved dramatically thereafter, since Crassus had demonstrated that " he was more dangerous to them than the enemy.

The first place to be referred to as catacombs was the system of underground tombs between the 2nd and 3rd milestones of the Appian Way in Rome, where the bodies of the apostles Peter and Paul, among others, were said to have been buried.

Three Taverns () was a place on the ancient Appian Way, about 18 km from Rome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates.

It was only after this, according to Appian, that Octavius slinked away unnoticed and was replaced as tribune by Quintus Memmius.

Reports on the city's surrender to Alexander the Great differ: Arrian reports a peaceful surrender, but Appian claims that the city was sacked.

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.

Appian in the beginning of his Punic Wars claims that Carthage was founded by a certain Zorus and Carchedon, but Zorus looks like an alternative transliteration of the city name Tyre and Carchedon is just the Greek form of Carthage.

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.

This was Lord Burlington's attempt to symbolise the Appian Way which led to ancient Rome.

It was in these circumstances that the entourages of Milo and Clodius met on the Appian Way at Bovillae ( January 18, 52 BC ).

The date of his downfall is uncertain ; Josephus reckons he was killed around 90 BC fighting the Parthians-and his possession of Antioch was certainly lost to Philip I Philadelphus around then-whereas for instance Appian speaks of him being defeated when the Armenian king Tigranes invaded Syria by 83 BC, but in that case his actions in the meantime remain unrevealed.

The first three books of Appian, and Plutarch's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius.

During his term as censor, he built the Appian Way (), an important and famous road between Rome and Capua, as well as the first aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Appia.

Schweighauser's first important work was his edition of Appian ( 1785 ), with Latin translation and commentary, and an account of the manuscripts.

The first Roman milestones appeared on the Appian way.

According to Appian the place near the Regia and probably part of the Main Square of the Roman Forum was a second choice, because the first intention of the Roman people was to bury Caesar on the Capitoline Hill among the other Gods of Rome.

It is here that the Appian Way first touches the sea ... Near Tarracina, as you go toward Rome, there is a canal that runs alongside the Appian Way, and is fed at numerous places by waters from the marshes and the rivers ...

According to Appian, he was eighth in descent from the first satrap of Pontus under Darius the Great and sixth in ascending order from Mithridates Eupator.

Its piratical activities imperiled Greek and Roman interests in the Adriatic Sea and caused the first Roman intervention at the eastern coast in 229 BC ; Florus ( II, 5 ) noted the Liburnians as the Roman enemies in this expedition, while Appian ( Bell.