Roman expansion in Italy
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The Roman expansion in Italy covers a series of conflicts in which Rome grew from being a small Italian city-state to being the ruler of the Italian region. Roman tradition attributes to the Roman kin
The Capitoline Wolf sculpture in the Capitoline Museums. According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 BC by Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a she-wolf.
The Mars of Todi, a life-sized Etruscan bronze sculpture of a soldier making a votive offering, late 5th to early 5th century BC, kept in the Vatican Museums
Samnite infantry and cavalry, fresco from a tomb frieze in Nola, 4th century BC
Bust of Pyrrhus of Epirus at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Roman Italy
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Roman Italy is the period of ancient Italian history going from the founding and rise of Rome to the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire; the Latin name of the Italian peninsula in this perio
Northern and southern section of Italia under Augustus and successors
The Tropaeum Alpium, The Victory Monument of the Alps, La Turbie, France, marked the Augustan border between Italy and Gaul.
The "Kingdom of Italy" of Theodoric the Great in 535 AD