The Third Samnite War (298-290 BC) was a crucial episode in the
early history of Rome. Upon its outcome rested mastery of central
Italy, and the independent survival of both Rome and the Samnites.
Determined to resist aggressive Roman expansion, the Samnites
forged a powerful alliance with the Senones (a tribe of Italian
Gauls), Etruscans and Umbrians. The result was eight years of hard
campaigning, brutal sieges and bitter battles that stretched Rome
to the limit. The desperate nature of the struggle is illustrated
by the ritual self-sacrifice (devotio) by the Roman consul Publius
Decimus Mus at the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), which restored the
resolve of the wavering Roman troops, and by the Samnite Linen
Legion at the Battle of Aquilonia (393 BC), each man of which was
bound by a sacred oath to conquer or die on the battlefield. Mike
Roberts, who has travelled the Italian landscape upon which these
events played out, mines the sources (which are more reliable, he
argues, than for Rome's previous wars) to produce a compelling
narrative of this momentous conflict.
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