Marser (Italy)
The Martians ( Latin Marsi ) were a tribe in ancient Italy , named after the god Mars . Like the neighboring Sabines, they belonged to the Sabellers and settled in the central Italian mountainous region ( Abruzzo ) around the Lacus Fucinus . Their most important place was Marruvium , other settlements Anxa, Antinum, Archippe and Lucus Fucens.
Mythological stories let the Martians descend from the sorceress Kirke , which protected them from snake bites. You were famous for taming snakes. The custom lives on in a single village in Abruzzo, Cocullo .
The people, considered to be warlike, were defeated during the Samnite Wars in the 4th and beginning of the 3rd century BC. To allies of Rome ; a formal alliance was formed in 303 BC. Closed. Because the Martians felt increasingly neglected towards the Roman citizens, they rose in 91 BC. Together (Chr. With other Italian allies against Rome Social War , also bellum Marsicum called because of the Marsi Quintus Poppaedius Silo was one of the leaders). After the end of the war in 89 BC Like almost all residents of Italy, they received Roman citizenship .
The old tribal area of the Martians still sees itself today as a culturally independent region called Marsica .
Derived term marsus
The marsus (Pl. Marsi ) was a medical specialist in the Roman army for antidotes and for the treatment of snakebites and scorpion stings in provinces where such medical knowledge was required. There he belonged to the medical staff of the Roman military. Marsi , as far as is known, came exclusively from the Libyan tribe of the Psyllis and are mentioned in the inscription of Lambaesis .
literature
- Stefania de Vido: Marsi 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 .
- Cesare Letta: The Marsi. In: Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley (Eds.): The Peoples of Ancient Italy. De Gruyter, Boston / Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-1-61451-520-3 , pp. 509-518.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Roy W. Davies: The Roman military medical services. In: Saalburg-Jahrbuch XXVII, pp. 84-104, 1970.
- ^ Plinio Prioreschi: A History of Medicine: Roman Medicine . Horatius Press, 1996, ISBN 1888456035 , ISBN 9781888456035 , Volume 3 of Roman Medicine, p. 548.
- ^ Lino Rossi: Il corpo sanitario dell 'armata romana . In: Physis, XI, 1969, pp. 534-551.
- ↑ Jane Louise Draycott: Approaches to healing in Roman Egypt . PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, December 2011, p. 252 (PDF) .