08-03-2006, 08:58 PM
Hi Jona,
Have you looked at Cornell's The Beginnings of Rome 360-62? He points to an extraordinary list of special commands and prorogations, and "that there was a great deal of confusion in the tradition about the distribution of consular commands in the Samnite Wars, and that many different versions proliferated in the late Republic." That might make it difficult to date it by consular appointments perhaps?
He also uses Duris of Samos (FGrHist 76 F.56). Maybe there's an alternative way to date the battle in that source?
Have you looked at Cornell's The Beginnings of Rome 360-62? He points to an extraordinary list of special commands and prorogations, and "that there was a great deal of confusion in the tradition about the distribution of consular commands in the Samnite Wars, and that many different versions proliferated in the late Republic." That might make it difficult to date it by consular appointments perhaps?
He also uses Duris of Samos (FGrHist 76 F.56). Maybe there's an alternative way to date the battle in that source?
