Aurunci

E45395

ancient Italic people

The Aurunci were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking cultural sphere.

Aliases (2)

Campanians ×1
Lucanians ×1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Italic people →
archaeologicalCulture	Oscan archaeological horizon →
associatedWith	Aurunci Mountains → Gulf of Gaeta region →
conflictWith	Roman Republic →
continent	Europe →
culturalSphere	Italic Iron Age cultures →
culture	Oscan culture →
describedIn	early Roman history →
economy	agriculture → pastoralism →
ethnicGroup	Italic peoples →
ethnonymInGreek	Ausones →
ethnonymInLatin	Aurunci →
event	defeat by the Romans →
historicalStatus	extinct people →
inhabitedRegion	Liris River valley → area between Latium and Campania →
integratedInto	Roman state →
knownFrom	Roman historical sources →
languageFamily	Oscan →
locatedIn	Campania → Latium → south-central Italy →
mentionedBy	Livy → Roman annalists →
neighboringPeople	Latins → Samnites → Sidicini → Volsci →
oftenIdentifiedWith	Ausones →
partOf	Oscan-speaking cultural sphere → ancient peoples of the Italian peninsula → pre-Roman peoples of Italy →
politicalOrganization	tribal communities →
regionType	mountainous and hilly territory →
religion	polytheism →
sometimesDistinguishedFrom	Ausones →
subjugatedBy	Roman Republic →
timePeriod	first millennium BCE →
writingSystem	Oscan alphabet →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Oscan language → Oscan language ("Campanians") → Oscan language ("Lucanians") →	spokenBy
Aurunci →	ethnonymInLatin
Sidicini →	neighbouringPeople
Volsci →	regionBordered
Sidicini →	relatedPeople