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 the first long road built specifically to transport troops outside the smaller region of greater Rome ( this was essential to the Romans ).

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.

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.

They were once thought to mark the ending points of the Appian Way, instead they were used as a port reference for the antique mariners.

For Julius Caesar's funeral service Appian reports a mechane that was used to present a blood-stained wax effigy of the deceased dictator to the funeral crowd.

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.

He may have relied primarily on one author for each book, whom he did not follow uncritically, since Appian also used additional sources for precision and correction.

The picture used for the cover of Tapestry, according to Jim McCrary, the photographer who captured King, was taken at a Laurel Canyon house where King lived on Wonderland Ave., not her house at 8815 Appian Way in Laurel Canyon, California.

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.

Drowne used the farm for botanical research and named his driveway the " Appian Way ".

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 ).