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as Misenum, it is the site of a great Roman port. Nearby Cape Miseno marks the northwestern end of the Bay of Naples. According to mythology, Misenum was...

staying at Misenum 29 kilometres (18 mi) from the volcano across the Bay of Naples. The first day of the eruption had little effect on Misenum. Pompeii...

The Pact of Misenum was a treaty to end the naval blockade of the Italian Peninsula during the Sicilian revolt. The pact was signed in 39 BC between Sextus...

The Classis Misenensis ("Fleet of Misenum"), later awarded the honorifics praetoria and Pia Vindex, was the senior fleet of the imperial Roman navy. The...

classis Misenensis. The port was located near Baiae and protected by the Misenum peninsula at the north-western end of the Gulf of Naples. Portus Julius...

Corinne at Cape Misenum is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist François Gérard, created in 1819–1821. It depicts the title character from Corinne...

Cape Miseno (Italian: Capo Miseno, Latin: Misenum, Ancient Greek: Μισήνον) is the headland that marks the northwestern limit of the Gulf of Naples as...

Neptune". A temporary peace agreement was reached in 39 BC with the Pact of Misenum; the blockade on Italy was lifted once Octavian granted Pompeius Sardinia...

Lurius. In 39 BC, Sextus and the triumvirs signed for peace in the Pact of Misenum. The reason for the peace treaty was to secure the West before the anticipated...

was the enormous Piscina Mirabilis cistern at the naval base and port of Misenum. Since the aqueduct traversed such a distance, many difficulties were encountered...

Campanella over the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, gaining sway over Puteoli and Misenum. The colony spread Greek culture in Italy and introduced a dialect of Greek...

some of the time, however, Pliny the Elder resided in the same house in Misenum with his sister and nephew (whose husband and father, respectively, had...

Lights were seen on the peak, interpreted as fires. People as far away as Misenum fled for their lives. The flows were rapid-moving, dense and very hot,...

Water Reservoirs in the Ancient Roman World and the “Piscina Mirabilis” in Misenum. Water Science & Technology: Water Supply. vol. 10, issue 3, pp 350–358...

also chief centurion of the same legion, in charge of (Praepositus) the Misenum fleet, prefect* of the Sixth Legion Victrix, commander of two** British...

audience. Sailors, specially enlisted from the Roman naval headquarters at Misenum and housed in the nearby Castra Misenatium, were used to work the velarium...

short visits to Rome, Nero sent people to annoy her. Although living in Misenum, she was always hailed as "Augusta", and Agrippina and Nero would see each...

with the Temple of Apollo and a Distant View of Cape Misenum (1819), a very faint pencil sketch by Joseph Turner (see also: Cape Misenum) v t e v t e...

Roman province of Cilicia. She was abducted in Italy, during a visit to Misenum (modern Miseno), by the Cilician pirates with whom her father had so often...

sharecropping system, Pliny's slaves would act as overseers. Herculaneum Misenum Pompeii Stabiae Melvyn Bragg (December 12, 2013). "Pliny the Younger"....