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The Volsci were alarmed, and gave three hundred children of the leading men of Cora and Suessa Pometia as hostages. The Roman army withdrew. [3] Shortly afterwards, however, the Volsci formed an alliance with the Hernici and sent ambassadors to seek the aid of the Latins. The Latins, having been defeated by Rome the previous year, were so ...
In modern times the name, with the spelling "Tanith", has been used as a female given name, both for real people and, more frequently, in occult fiction. From the 5th century BC onwards, Tanit is associated with that of Ba`al Hammon. She is given the epithet pene baal ("face of Baal") and the title rabat, the female form of rab (chief).
The Volsci were among the most dangerous enemies of ancient Rome, and frequently allied with the Aequi, whereas their neighbors, the Hernici, were allied with Rome after 486 BC. [ 11 ] [ 4 ] According to the semi-legendary history of early Rome, its seventh and last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus , was the first to go to war against the ...
Modern scholars are unsure if Camilla was entirely an original invention of Virgil, or represents some actual Roman myth. [6] In his book Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Michael Paschalis speculates that Virgil chose the river Amasenus (today the Amaseno, near Priverno, ancient Privernum) as a poetic allusion to the Amazons with whom Camilla is associated. [7]
Other female family members, including Drypetis, Stateira II, and Sisygambis were present and were captured as well. [89] 332 BCE – The Nubian queen, Candace of Meroe, intimidated Alexander the Great with her armies and her strategy while confronting him, causing him to avoid Nubia, instead heading to Egypt, according to Pseudo-Callisthenes. [90]
The Chongzhen Emperor showered her with praises in poetry and presented her with four poems as she passed through Beijing. [3] In 1634, when Zhang Xianzhong 's rebel army invaded Sichuan, Qin Liangyu and her son, Ma Xianglin (馬祥麟), led their troops to attack the rebels, defeated them at Kuizhou (夔州; present-day Fengjie County ...
In 495 BC, the Hernici joined the Volsci in an unsuccessful invasion of Roman territory. [2] In 487 BC, they again engaged the Romans in battle, and were defeated by the Romans under the leadership of the Roman consul Gaius Aquillius Tuscus. [3] In the following year, 486 BC, the Hernici entered into a treaty with Rome.
Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Deruet, 1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The origin of the word is uncertain. [13] It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym *ha-mazan-'warriors', a word attested indirectly through a derivation, a denominal verb in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss "ἁμαζακάραν· πολεμεῖν.