Grumentum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Robinson, Tom Elliott
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History
Grumentum was an ancient settlement of Lucania, likely inhabited since the sixth century B.C. The site played a role in the Second Punic War and later became a bishopric in the fourth century A.D.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442603
40.2857681333, 15.9080534667
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 18487 (750 BC - AD 640)
- location of Roman amphitheater (30 BC - AD 300)
- None
settlement, amphitheatre, amphitheater
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- App. B Civ. 1.41
- BAtlas 45 C4 Grumentum
- BTCGI VIII, 204-11
- Liliana, G. 1991. "Grumentum e Metaponto. Due esempi di passaggio dal tardoantico all'alto medioevo in Basilicata." Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen-Age, Temps modernes 103.2:827-58.
- Liv. 23.37.10
- Liv. 27.41.3
- Mastrocinque 2009
- Mastrocinque, A., Fiammetta Soriano, Chiara Marchetti, and Ine Jacobs. 2014. "Archaeological research at Grumentum 2013: a three-dimensional documentation." FOLD&R 306.
- New Pauly, Grumentum
- PECS (Perseus), GRUMENTUM (Grumento) Lucania, Italy
- RE Grumentum
- Smith 1854 (Perseus), GRUMENTUM
- Wikipedia (English) Grumentum
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 C4 Grumentum
The earliest Roman settlement belongs to the third century BC. Hanno was defeated at Grumentum in 215 BC and in 207 BC Hannibal made the town his headquarters.
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Robinson, and Tom Elliott, 'Grumentum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442603> [accessed: 23 April 2018]
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