Saticula

For the cicada genus, see Saticula (cicada).

Saticula was a Caudini city near the frontier of Campania in southern Italy.[1][2] In 343 BC, during the First Samnite War, the Roman consul Cornelius attacked it during the campaign against the Samnites in the Battle of Saticula.[3]

Its archaeological remains are in the territory of the modern town of Sant'Agata de' Goti. Ceramic evidence from Saticula and nearby Caudium suggest that the two cities were part of a trade network along the Volturno River, linking the area with the rest of eastern Campagnia and the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, as well as to the northern areas, including the Pentri settlements of Bovianum and Saepinum.[4]

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  2. ^ Salmon, E. T. (1967-09-02). Samnium and the Samnites. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-06185-8.
  3. ^ Fields, Nic (2021-03-18). Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's Humiliation in the Second Samnite War. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-2491-2.
  4. ^ Hoyer, Daniel C. (2012-01-01). "Samnite Economy and the Competitive Environment of Italy in . the Fifth to Third Centuries bc". Processes of Integration and Identity Formation in the Roman Republic. Brill. pp. 179–196. doi:10.1163/9789004229600_012. ISBN 978-90-04-22960-0.