Ancient Italian history

period of ancient Rome following the Republic

period of ancient Roman civilization (509 BC–27 BC)

The Ostrogoths (, ) were a Roman-era Germanic people who, in the 5th and 6th centuries, established one of the two major Gothic kingdoms within the Western Roman Empire. They drew on large Gothic populations settled in the Balkans since the 4th century and rose to prominence under Theodoric the Great, who in 493 founded the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy after defeating Odoacer.

King of the Visigoths

period of Roman history when the city and its territory were ruled by kings (c.753–c.509 BC)

purported historical ethnic group

historical Italic tribe

Roman province

Italy under ancient Roman rule

5th century BC Greek logographer

right|320px|thumb|Volscian settlements (in red)

administrative division of the late Roman Empire (324-584 CE)

thumb|300px|Gate into the interior of the settlement of the frazione of Pratica di Mare, a medieval walled village at the site of the center of ancient Lavinium. The structures in the photograph vary in date. On the left is the Castello Borghese, possibly the site of the Roman arx or citadel. The archaeological excavations are in a field off to the left of the photograph. The comune of Pomezia and the museum are directly behind the photographer.

mountain in Italy

thumb|300px|Via Collatina, from Rome to Collatia Collatia was an ancient town of central Italy, c. 15 km northeast of Rome by the Via Collatina.

thumb|Map of Rome under the monarchy Crustumerium (or Crustumium) was an ancient town of Latium, on the edge of the Sabine territory, near the headwaters of the Allia, not far from the Tiber.

archaeological site in Lugagnano Val d'Arda, Italy

thumb|mosaic of actors in tragic scene from Lorium (Altes Museum Berlin) thumb|300px|Villa delle Colonnacce thumb|Villa delle Colonnacce thumb|Cistern of Villa delle Colonnacce, 2nd-3rd c. AD thumb|Fresco, villa delle Colonnacce (Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme)

Melinno () was a Greek lyric poet. She is known from a single surviving poem, known as the "Ode to Rome". The poem survives in a quotation by the fifth century AD author Stobaeus, who included it in a compilation of poems on manliness. It was apparently included in this collection by mistake, as Stobaeus misinterpreted the word ρώμα () in the first line as meaning "strength", rather than being the Greek name for the city of Rome.

Roman conquest of Germania territories

ancient Greek historian

siege in 49 BC