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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (268 BC – 208 BC) was five times Consul of the Roman Republic and prominent Roman General. He killed the Gaulish King Viridomarus in hand-to-hand combat in 222 BC at the Battle of Clastidium. Marcellus played a prominent Role in the Second Punic War.His decisive victories in Sicily were of history altering ...
Marcus Claudius Marcellus war ein Politiker der römischen Republik und zusammen mit Gaius Valerius Potitus einer der Konsuln des Jahres 331 v. Chr. Marcellus war dictator comitiorum habendorum causa („zur Abhaltung von Wahlen“) im Jahr 327 [2] und der erste plebejische Claudier , der zum Konsulat aufstieg.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus had ordered that Archimedes, the well-known mathematician – and possibly equally well-known to Marcellus as the inventor of the mechanical devices that had so dominated the siege – should not be killed. Archimedes, who was now around 78 years of age, continued his studies after the breach by the Romans and while at home, his work was disturbed by a Roman soldier ...
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a consul (196 BC) and a censor in (189 BC) of the Roman Republic. He was the son of the famous general Marcus Claudius Marcellus (killed 208 BC), and possibly father of the three-time consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 166 BC) . Marcellus first appears in Livy 's history when his father, then curule aedile ...
Gens. Filius eius Marcus Claudius M.f. Marcellus consul anni 196 a.C.n. erat. . Cursus honorum. Claudius Marcellus anno 222 una cum Gnaeo Cornelio Scipione Calvo primo consul electus est. Ambo consules eo anno Insubres Gallos vicerunt et Marcellus spolia opima adeptus est, dum Gallorum ducem Viridomarum in proelio sua manu occidit atque armis spoliat.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus (c. 270-208 BCE) was a five-time consul and, earning the nickname the 'Sword of Rome', he was one of the city's greatest military commanders. Active in both the First and Second Punic Wars, he also won honours for his campaigns in Gaul and the capture of Mediolanum (modern Milan). Battling Hannibal in southern Italy and then famously capturing Syracuse on Sicily ...
The new government rebuffed Rome, allied itself to Carthage, and declared war. A Roman army and fleet, led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus, arrived to lay siege. Syracuse was a strongly defended city with a large harbor, and Marcellus brought in ships equipped with siege towers and scaling ladders to assault the city from the port.
