CLST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gaius Flaminius, Battle Of The Trebia, Praetor

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 340
• Professor: Bernard Kavanagh

Document Summary

This opened up hannibals march towards rome. Gaius flaminius (vetoed the land giving to rich people, and gave it to the poor of rome, as censor set up colonies in northern italy) was elected consul in 217 since all other troops were airstrocratic commanders. In the following year 217 the two sides in etururia at lacus/lago/lake/trasimenus/trasimeno/trasimene, within sight of the city of cortona. Hannibal used the mists and the fog of that morning to catch a roman army of about. Most roman troops were killed including c. flaminius were killed. The village closest to the site is now called ossaia which mean the place of the bones. Hannibal goes to southern italy where it is a soft spot for the roman empire. With three defeats in a row two of which major and with the death of a consul q. fabius.