The Center for Hellenic Studies,

Samnite Inhabitants

The Samnites were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium in south-central Italy and lived in Pompeii before the Roman arrival. They became involved in several wars with the Roman Republic until the 1st century BC.

The Center for Hellenic Studies

at Harvard University

Reassertion of the humanism of the ancient world, centering on Hellenic civilization in its widest sense

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