AUTHOR: Decebal NEDU THE LAST YEARS OF PRE-ROMAN ITALY. MILITARY OPERATIONS, COLONIZATIONS, TRANSFERS OF POPULATION AND NEW JURIDICAL STATUTES (278-264 B.C.) Danubius, XXVII, Galaţi, 2009, pp. 51-68. Abstract The period between 278-264 B.C. was conclusive for the fate of the Italic Peninsula. During this period of time, Rome gathered its efforts in order to anihilate…

AUTHOR: Decebal NEDU Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 77-84.   Abstract Even if some of the episodes of the Etruscan war from 311-308 B.C. may be uncertain, the general lines of the conflict can be traced in the narrations of Livy and Diodorus. Between 311 and 310 B.C. the Roman and the Etruscan troops fought…

AUTHOR: Decebal NEDU APULIA BETWEEN ROME, TARENTUM AND THE SAMNITE LEAGUE (326 B.C. – 315 B.C.) Danubius, XXVI, Galaţi, 2008, pp. 13-24. Abstract The regions of Apulia represented the second important front of the strategy of the Second Samnite War. Concerning the year 326 B.C., Livy records that Rome signed an alliance with the Apulians….

AUTHOR: Decebal NEDU Danubius, XXX, Galaţi, 2012, pp. 77-100. Abstract The peace from 304 B.C., that ended the Second Samnite War, quenched the spirits in Italy only for 5 years. In 299 BC, a Gallic invasion to the central part of the peninsula, organised with the help of the Etruscans, triggered the re-opening of the hostilities….

AUTHOR: Andreea-Raluca BARBOŞ, Decebal NEDU Danubius, XXXI, Galati, 2013, pp. 15-30. Abstract The amnesty granted to the fugitives in the spring of 39 B.C. generated changes not only in the political and social life of Rome, but also within the families of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Octavian Caesar. Livia Drusilla’s divorce, pregnant with the second…

AUTHOR: Andreea-Raluca BARBOŞ, Decebal NEDU IULIA MAIOR AND THE TRANSMISSION OF THE IMPERIAL POWER Danubius, XXXIII, Galaţi, 2015, pp. 309-336. Abstract The influence exerted by Octavia upon Augustus and their collaboration proved to have a decisive role in the apparition of the dynasty line. Unfortunately, we can not precisely know when the concept of the…