Description: Map showing the various peoples of the Apennine Peninsula and Sicily at the time of the founding of Rome. ÒTo understand RomeÕs wars you must know clearly who were the people around her. You remember that south of the Alps were the Gauls; then along the west coast, north of Rome, were the Etruscans; while on the east coast, south of Rome, were a number of prosperous cities, which were colonies founded by settlers from Greece. There were great and rich Greek cities too along the coast of Sicily. The rest of Italy was covered by purely Italian tribes, of which the Latins round Rome were one. — Creighton, 1890
Source: M. Creighton, History of Rome (New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1890) 20
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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