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The Gallic sack was a humiliation for Rome and set in motion a series of wars against nearby peoples. Rome, in conjunction with the Latin League, a coalition of other Latin cities, and the Hernici, had spent much of the 5th century fighting against the Volsci and Aequi, who
The Sack of Rome, a 1920 Italian film depicting the 1527 event; The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi, a book by Alexander Stille; Le sac de Rome, an essay by Andre Chastel "Sack of Rome", a chess tournament victory by Sofia Polgar
According to tradition, in 390 BC, an army of Gauls led by Brennus attacked Rome, capturing all of the city except for the Capitoline Hill. Brennus besieged the hill, and finally the Romans asked to ransom their city.
Brennus was played by Gordon Mitchell in the 1963 film Brennus, Enemy of Rome. Brennus and the sack of Rome by the Senones feature in Steven Saylor's historical novel Roma (2007) Brennus is a playable leader of the "Celts" faction in the 2001 video game expansion Civilization III: Play the World.
The sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric. At that time, Rome was no longer the administrative capital of the Western Roman Empire, having been replaced in that position first by Mediolanum (now Milan) in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402. Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount ...
In 390 BC, Gauls from the north of Italy sacked Rome. In the second half of the 4th century BC Rome clashed repeatedly with the Samnites, a powerful tribal coalition of the Apennine region. By the end of these wars, Rome had become the most powerful state in central Italy and began to expand to the north and to the south.
Year 390 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Ambustus, Longus, Ambustus, Fidenas, Ambustus and Cornelius (or, less frequently, year 364 Ab urbe condita ).
Lucius Valerius Potitus (fl. c. 414–390 BC) was a five time consular tribune, in 414, 406, 403, 401 and 398 BC, and two times consul, in 393 and 392 BC, of the Roman Republic. [ 1 ] Valerius belonged to the Valeria gens , one of the oldest and most prominent patrician gens of the early Republic.