CLST 201 Lecture 8: CLST201Wk4
14 Apr 2017
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The march of spain through northern italy, alps. Romans surprised hannibal made it there so quickly. Lake trasimene, 217 most of the fish from here in central italy. Cortona, tuscany, italy ancient city, one of the few whose name has never changed built on a hill can just see lake trasimene in the distance (pic) Romans marched to meet hannibal at lake trisimene, but they did not see him as they continued to march north. Hannibal and army hid (using mist, rocks, trees), then ambushed the romans. Today, the village closest to the site of that battle is called ossaia, the place of the bones. When village was started, they found many bones. After lake trasimene, the romans made quintus fabius maximus dictator for the rest of 217 bc. He comes from a very high ranking patrician family. Cunctator (the delayer) meant as an insult, he was the guy delaying victory in the perspective of the romans.
