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Battle of Cantenna
Part of the Third Servile War
Magna Graecia, about 280 B.C.
Date
71 BC
Location
Cantenna, Lucania
Result
Roman Victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic
Army of escaped slaves
Commanders and leaders
Marcus Licinius Crassus Quintus Marcius Rufus Lucius Pomptinus
Gannicus † Castus †
Strength
8 Roman legions with auxiliaries (about 45,000 men)
about 30,000 runaway slaves and gladiators
Casualties and losses
about 4000-5000 men
12,300 killed (Plutarch) and about 15,000 taken prisoner
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Roman Servile Wars
First
Second
Third
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Third Servile War
73 BC
Mount Vesuvius
72 BC
Lentula
Gargano [it]
Picenum
Mutina
71 BC
Cantenna
Campania
2nd Campania
Silarius River
The Battle of Cantenna was one of the last battles of the Third Servile War, and took place in 71 BC near Cantenna, Lucania,[1][2] about 5 km (3.1 mi) from Giungano. The slave army was annihilated by Marcus Licinius Crassus' legions.
^Strauss, Barry, The Spartacus War, 2009, pp. 163-166.
^Frontinus, Strategems, quoted in Shaw, Brent D., Spartacus and the Slave Wars, 2001, pp. 157-158.
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