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Dec 12, 2019 · filling the gap between them and the Enipeus River. The 8th was stationed next to the 9th. Both legions had been so depleted by the flu epidemic and then the casualties at Durrës that Caesar had ordered them to work together during this action and operate as one legion. Next to them stood the men of the 7th Legion, adjacent to the central ...
Jul 7, 2021 · July 7, 2021. The Battle of Pharsalus, which took place near the Enipeus River of Greece, was the decisive battle in 48 BCE that marked the victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey the Great in the Roman Civil War fought between the two genius generals. It was a day of great significance to both sides of the war—either as the day that Julius ...
Feb 22, 2018 · The Battle of Pharsalus was one of the most important in Julius Caesar’s career. Fought on the 9th of August 48 BC, it was the turning point that gave him victory in Rome’s civil war, taking control of the empire and effectively ending the Republican government under which it had been run for hundreds of years.
This site is some six miles (9.7 km) north of Pharsalus, and three miles north of the river Enipeus, and not only has remains dating back to neolithic times but also signs of habitation in the 1st century BC and later. The identification seems to be confirmed by the location of a place misspelled "Palfari" or "Falaphari" shown on a medieval ...
The Battle of Pharsalus. On August 9, 48 BC, the Battle of Pharsalus, a decisive engagement of the Great Roman Civil War, saw Julius Caesar’s forces outmaneuver and defeat Pompey’s larger army in Thessaly, near the Enipeus River. Military Strategies. Caesar’s forces, adept in the art of war, consisted of both veteran legions and auxiliary ...
Pharsalus; now as the Enipeus, according to Strabo (IX, p. 432). springs from Mount Othrys and flows past Pharsalus, the Fersaliti has been most justly pronounced by Leake (Northern Greece, IV 320) to be the Enipeus, and the hypothesis followed by Goler that the Fersaliti is the Apidanus is untenable. With this all the other
For the better part of two decades starting around 70 BC, three men, Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompey and Marcus Crassus, essentially ran the republic from behind the scenes. However, by 52 BC political realities and egos caused the three-way alliance to fall apart. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar and the legions loyal to him invaded Central Italy, which ...
