Arpi

Arpi was an ancient city of the Daunians in the southern Italian countryside of Apulia . Other forms of the name are Argyripa and Argos Hippion . The name lives on in a homestead near what is now Foggia .

The city was founded by Diomedes according to a mythological legend . In the Samnite Wars she supported 320 BC. BC Rome , but fell in the Second Punic War in 216 BC. After the battle of Cannae from the Romans to Hannibal . Although provided with a strong Punic garrison, the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus succeeded in 213 BC. The reconquest of the city. Since Augustus Arpi belonged to the 2nd region of Italy (Apulia et Hirpini) . The titular diocese of Arpi of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city .

literature

• Gerhard Radke : Arpi. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 603.

Remarks

1. ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 3, 104; Strabon 6, 3, 9, p. 283 .
2. ^ Livy 9:13 , 9.
3. ↑ Polybios 3, 88 and 118; Appian , Hannibalica 31.
4. ↑ Livy, 24, 45-47; Frontinus , Strategemata 3, 9, 2; different Appian, Hannibalica 31.