Map showing the movement of the slave army of Spartacus and those of the Roman forces. Part 4 was the Battle of Picenum.
Date
72 BC
Location
Within Picenum region, Italia, Roman Republic (present-day Marche region, Italy)
Result
Spartacan victory[1]
Belligerents
Rebel army composed mostly of freed slaves and gladiators
Roman Republic
Commanders and leaders
Spartacus
Lucius Gellius Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
Strength
120,000[2]
~20,000
Casualties and losses
unknown
unknown, but heavy
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Mount Vesuvius
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Lentula
Gargano [it]
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Mutina
71 BC
Cantenna
Campania
2nd Campania
Silarius River
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The Battle of Picenum was one of the major battles of the Third Servile War, between the slave army of Spartacus and the combined consular forces of the Roman Republic led by the two consuls Lucius Gellius and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. It took place in Picenum region in 72 BC. It was a victory for Spartacus, and it proved to be his greatest triumph of the war.
The BattleofPicenum was one of the major battlesof the Third Servile War, between the slave army of Spartacus and the combined consular forces of the...
the BattleofPicenum somewhere in the Picenum region and were defeated again. Appian claims that at this point Spartacus changed his intention of marching...
slave revolt suppressed. 73 BC – Battleof Mount Vesuvius – Spartacus defeats Gaius Claudius Glaber 72 BC – BattleofPicenum – Slave Revolt led by Spartacus...
Their territory, known as Picenum, therefore included all of today's Marche and the northern part of Abruzzo. The limits ofPicenum depend on the era; during...
needed. However, when the Romans partitioned the formerly-Celtic territory ofPicenum in 234 BC, they created resentment among its neighbours, the Boii and...
battleof Ancona. The attack was part of an Allied operation to gain access to a seaport closer to the Gothic Line in order to shorten their lines of...
was assassinated by the courtiers of Ptolemy XIII. Pompey was born in Picenum on 29 September 106 BC, eldest son of a provincial noble called Gnaeus Pompeius...
Fermo (Italian: [ˈfermo] ; ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and comune of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation...
oncoming legions of Gellius. Gathering their shattered forces, both consuls gave chase but were once again defeated at a battle near Picenum. Humiliated by...
failure at the Battleof Gergovia and abandoned the siege, hoping to join up with the legions that Ventidius Bassus was bringing from Picenum. Having reconcentrated...
his legions south through Picenum, he was suddenly attacked by a large force of Picentes, Vestini and Marsi. Although the battle favoured neither side, Strabo...
oncoming legions of Publicola. Gathering their shattered forces, both consuls gave chase but were once again defeated at a battle near Picenum. Humiliated...
town of Cingulum in Picenum. His family was of equestrian status. He most likely had early ties with Pompey during his time as a patron for Picenum and...
Picenum that had been occupied by the Senone Gauls and was conquered by Rome in 284 BC or 283 BC, either after the Battleof Arretium or the Battle of...
highly contested Battleof the Colline Gate. Meanwhile, Metellus, the commander of Sulla's northern forces, had been victorious in Picenum and marched down...
(up to the time of Plutarch's writing) to a Roman general of the triumphal ceremony for victory over Parthians. Ventidius was from Picenum. He and his mother...
ancient name of two Italian cities: Ascoli Piceno, in ancient Picenum (modern Marche) Ascoli Satriano, in Apulia, South East Italy Battleof Asculum (disambiguation)...
He received one of the 18 legions enrolled that year to carry out his duties. He was prorogued again and kept the legion in Picenum for the next year...
arrival of three legions from the south, recruited by his capable lieutenant Publius Ventidius Bassus from among Caesar's veterans settled in Picenum. Antony...
veterans and clientelae in Picenum. Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the...
Gallic region ofPicenum. He was captured after the defeat at Telamon (modern Talamone, Tuscany). Aneroëstes escaped with a small group of followers and...
Umbrians, settled on the east coast of Italy. Their territory spanned from Forlì to Ancona and Terni, in Picenum or what was later the Ager Gallicus....
kill all military-aged males they came across as they marched through Picenum towards the Adriatic coast, reaching Herita 10 days after leaving Lake...
ISBN 0-19-511876-6. By the 260s, few, if any, communities in Etruria, Umbria and Picenum possessed any real independence. The Picentes revolted in 269. Staveley...
march, moved with great speed" to the ager Gallicus "by way of the Sabine country and Picenum" and laid it to waste. According to Appian: He ravaged them...
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