This article concerns the period 19 BC –10 BC.
The Via Domitia was the first Roman road built in Gaul,to link Italy and Hispania through Gallia Narbonensis,across what is now Southern France. The route that the Romans regularised and paved was ancient when they set out to survey it,and traces the mythic route travelled by Heracles.
The gens Fabia was one of the most ancient patrician families at ancient Rome. The gens played a prominent part in history soon after the establishment of the Republic,and three brothers were invested with seven successive consulships,from 485 to 479 BC,thereby cementing the high repute of the family. Overall,the Fabii received 45 consulships during the Republic. The house derived its greatest lustre from the patriotic courage and tragic fate of the 306 Fabii in the Battle of the Cremera,477 BC. But the Fabii were not distinguished as warriors alone;several members of the gens were also important in the history of Roman literature and the arts.
The Arverni were a Gallic people dwelling in the modern Auvergne region during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They were one of the most powerful tribes of ancient Gaul,contesting primacy over the region with the neighbouring Aedui.
The Allobroges were a Gallic people dwelling in a large territory between the Rhône river and the Alps during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Occitania and Provence,in Southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra,because it was the first Roman province north of the Alps,and as Gallia Transalpina,distinguishing it from Cisalpine Gaul in Northern Italy. It became a Roman province in the late 2nd century BC. Gallia Narbonensis was bordered by the Pyrenees Mountains on the west,the Cévennes to the north,the Alps on the east,and the Gulf of Lion on the south;the province included the majority of the Rhone catchment. The western region of Gallia Narbonensis was known as Septimania. The province was a valuable part of the Roman Empire,owing to the Greek colony and later Roman Civitas of Massalia,its location between the Spanish provinces and Rome,and its financial output.
The Via Aquitania was a Roman road created in 118 BC in the Roman province of Gaul. It started at Narbonne,where it connected to the Via Domitia. It then went toward the Atlantic Ocean,via Toulouse and Bordeaux,covering approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi).
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was a member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty of Ancient Rome. Domitius was the son of Antonia Major. He married Agrippina the Younger and became the father of the emperor Nero.
Lucius Licinius Crassus was a Roman orator and statesman who was a Roman consul and censor and who is also one of the main speakers in Cicero's dramatic dialogue on the art of oratory De Oratore,set just before Crassus' death in 91 BC. He was considered the greatest orator of his day by his pupil Cicero.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was tribune of the people in 104 BC. He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus,and brother of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. The College of Pontiffs elected him pontifex maximus in 103.
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus,consul in 54 BC,was an enemy of Julius Caesar and a strong supporter of the aristocratic party in the late Roman Republic.
Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus,was a Roman statesman and general who was elected consul in 121 BC. During his consulship he fought against the Arverni and the Allobroges whom he defeated in 120 BC. He was awarded a triumph and the agnomen Allobrogicus for his victory over the Gauls.
Bituitus was a king of the Arverni,a Gaulish tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France. The Arverni were a powerful opponent of the Roman Republic during the 3rd and 2nd centuries under the leadership of Luernius,the father of Bituitus. In 121 BCE,Bituitus was defeated by the Roman general Fabius Maximus,ending the power of the Arverni in Mediterranean Gaul,or present-day southern France. The defeat of the Arverni resulted in the establishment of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis.
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was a politician in ancient Rome during the late 2nd and early 1st century BC. He served as praetor in Sicily,probably in 96 BC,shortly after the Second Servile War,when slaves had been forbidden to carry arms. He ordered a slave to be crucified for killing a wild boar with a hunting spear. He was consul in 94 BC. In the civil war between Gaius Marius and Sulla,he took the side of the latter,and was murdered at Rome by the praetor Damasippus on the orders of Gaius Marius the Younger.
Over the course of nearly four centuries,the Roman Republic fought a series of wars against various Celtic tribes,whom they collectively described as Galli,or Gauls. Among the principal Gallic peoples described as antagonists by Greek and Roman writers were the Senones,Insubres,Boii,and Gaesatae.
The gens Domitia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus,consul in 332 BC. His son,Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus Maximus,was consul in 283,and the first plebeian censor. The family produced several distinguished generals,and towards the end of the Republic,the Domitii were looked upon as one of the most illustrious gentes.
The Battle of Vindalium took place near Vindalium,a Cavarian settlement probably corresponding to modern day Mourre-de-Sève in Sorgues,near the confluence of the Rhône and Durance rivers in Southern France. The battle opposed the Allobroges,a Gallic tribe dwelling further north between the Rhône and the Alps,to the Roman forces of proconsul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
The Battle of the Isère River took place near the modern day French town of Valence at the confluence of the Isère and Rhône rivers. A first confrontation had been won by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus at the Battle of Vindalium,further south in the Rhône Valley,before Ahenobarbus and Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus joined their forces,defeating a confederation of Allobroges,Arverni and some Salluvii warriors at the Isère River.
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