Caudium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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History
A city of Samnium located between Capua and Beneventum. In 321 B.C. the Samnites under C. Pontius encamped there before defeating the Romans at the battle of the Caudine Forks.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432773
41.06255, 14.6367615
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18320 (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Caudium (Latin, 750 BC - AD 300)
- Caudium connection Caudini (unspecified date range)
- Caudium connection Via Appia (unspecified date range)
- Untitled located near Caudium (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 G3 Caudium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Montesarchio
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Caudium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432773> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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