This chapter describes the Romans first wars with non-Italian enemies:

Magna Graeca and the Eastern Mediterranean (338 - 264 BC)

Pyrrhic Wars (280 - 275 BC)

First Punic War (264 - 241 BC) and its and its Aftermath (238 - 221 BC)

Wars in Cisalpine Gaul, Istrya and Illyrium (225 - 218 BC)

Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC)

1. I: Hannibal’s Invasion (218 BC) to the Defeat at Trasimene (June 217 BC)
   

2. II: Dictatorship of Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
   

3. III: 216 - 201 BC
   

Topics

1. Temples  of Venus Obsequens and Venus Erycina
   

2. Temples of Fides, Spes, (Jupiter) Liberas and Mens
   

3. Marcellus and the Spolia Opima (220 BC)
   

4. Temple(s) of Honos and Virtus (233 - 205 BC)
   

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