Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome. An oppidum was founded by people of Latial culture, which then became the main stronghold of the Volsci until it was conquered by the Roman

The Volsci were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. At the time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bound