What is The Caudine Forks and what happened there?

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What is The Caudine Forks and what happened there?

Answer 1

would you loke the censured version that we all learned at school? the Romans were defeated by the Samnites.

As in http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/rep... , passed under the yoke with their entire army, stripped of their armour and weapons.

The original version says that they were also brutalized (in the sexual meaning of the term) by the Samnites.

" The humiliation lay far more in the nature of the defeat..."

Answer 2

see also

http://en.wikipendia.org/wiki/Battle_of_...

Answer 3

The Caudine Forks are mountain passes in the Appenines south east of Rome. The Romans surrendered to the   Samnites - and were then humiliated by the winners. There's a lot of information available if you do a search. One site is: http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/rep... I'll leave it to you to look up more detailed descriptions since they're easy to find.