Lucanians

The Lucanians (sometimes also called Lucanians) an Italic people with Oscan language, in the 5th century. Between the rivers Sele , Bradano , Lao and Crati . The country is named Lucania after them and corresponds roughly to today's Basilicata . During the 4th century BC They expanded their area to the south-west into what is now Calabria. This resulted in conflicts with the great Greek cities such as Syracuse and Taranto . In the following years they came under the influence of Rome , since the 3rd century BC. They were under Roman rule since the 1st century BC. They were finally Romanized.

literature

• Gerhard Radke : Lūcāni. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 744 f.
• Ilaria Battiloro: The Archeology of Lucanian Cult Places. Fourth century BC to the Early Imperial Age. Routledge, Abingdon 2017, ISBN 978-1-4724-2391-7 .
• John W. Wonder: The Lucanians. In: Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley (Eds.): The Peoples of Ancient Italy. De Gruyter, Boston / Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-1-61451-520-3 , pp. 369–384.

Web links

Wiktionary: Lukaner  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations