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Mevania (modern Bevagna
Bevagna

Bevagna is a town and comune in the central part of the Italy province of Perugia, , in the flood plain of the Topino river.Bevagna is 25 km SE of Perugia, 8 km west of Foligno, 7 km north-north-west of Montefalco, 16 km south of Assisi and 15 km north-west of Trevi....
), an ancient Roman town and municipium
Municipium

A municipium belonged to the second highest Social class of Ancient Rome cities, being inferior in status to the colonia . The first municipium was Tusculum....
 of (Umbria
Umbria

Umbria is a Regions of Italy of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km? and about 900,000 inhabitants....
), in the Augustan Regio VI. It lay on the western branch of the Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia

The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum , and was the most important route to the north....
, 13 km (8 mi) WSW of Forum Flaminii where the branches rejoin.

In 310 BC the consul Fabius
Fabius

The family name "Fabius" was the nomen of the gens Fabia of ancient Rome, that derived from the Latin faba for the Vicia faba, an important food crop in the Roman Empire....
 broke the Umbrian forces here; but otherwise it is not mentioned until the 1st century A.D. In 69
69

Year 69 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
 the army of Vitellius
Vitellius

Aulus Vitellius Germanicus, born Aulus Vitellius and commonly known as Vitellius , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 16 April 69 to 22 December of the same year....
 awaited here the advance of Vespasian
Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
.

Pastures near the Tinia river and the white oxen of the Clitumnus (modern.






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Mevania (modern Bevagna
Bevagna

Bevagna is a town and comune in the central part of the Italy province of Perugia, , in the flood plain of the Topino river.Bevagna is 25 km SE of Perugia, 8 km west of Foligno, 7 km north-north-west of Montefalco, 16 km south of Assisi and 15 km north-west of Trevi....
), an ancient Roman town and municipium
Municipium

A municipium belonged to the second highest Social class of Ancient Rome cities, being inferior in status to the colonia . The first municipium was Tusculum....
 of (Umbria
Umbria

Umbria is a Regions of Italy of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km? and about 900,000 inhabitants....
), in the Augustan Regio VI. It lay on the western branch of the Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia

The Via Flaminia was a Roman road leading from Rome to Ariminum , and was the most important route to the north....
, 13 km (8 mi) WSW of Forum Flaminii where the branches rejoin.

In 310 BC the consul Fabius
Fabius

The family name "Fabius" was the nomen of the gens Fabia of ancient Rome, that derived from the Latin faba for the Vicia faba, an important food crop in the Roman Empire....
 broke the Umbrian forces here; but otherwise it is not mentioned until the 1st century A.D. In 69
69

Year 69 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
 the army of Vitellius
Vitellius

Aulus Vitellius Germanicus, born Aulus Vitellius and commonly known as Vitellius , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 16 April 69 to 22 December of the same year....
 awaited here the advance of Vespasian
Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
.

Pastures near the Tinia river and the white oxen of the Clitumnus (modern. Clitunno) River are mentioned by Propertius, whose family was from the area (from Assisium
Assisi

Assisi , is a town in Italy in province of Perugia, Italy, in the Umbria Regions of Italy, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is the birthplace of St Francis of Assisi, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and Clare of Assisi , the founder of the Poor Clares....
, Hispellum
Spello

Spello is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Monte Subasio....
, or Mevania itself): they may refer to Mevania. Mevania is specifically mentioned by the later writers Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus

Silius Italicus, in full Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus , was a Latin epic poet....
, Lucan and Statius
Statius

Publius Papinius Statius was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, born in Naples, Italy. Besides his poetry, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatorio section of Dante Alighieri epic poem The Divine Comedy....
.

There are important remains of a temple near the north gate, of a theatre built into modern houses in the (misnamed) via dell' Anfiteatro, lesser remains of a second temple in the church of S. Vincenzo near the east gate, mosaics belonging to midsized baths in the via Porta Guelfa, and very scanty remains of an amphitheatre at some distance from the modern town. The original walls, which have disappeared, were, according to Pliny
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
 (), built of unbaked bricks. The town now has a complete circuit of medieval stone walls that are said to be very near, if not identical with, the Roman walls.

External links

  • at LacusCurtius
    LacusCurtius

    LacusCurtius is a website specializing in ancient Rome, currently hosted on a server at the University of Chicago. It went online on August 26, 1997; in January 2008 it had "2786 pages, 690 photos, 675 drawings & engravings, 118 plans, 66 maps."...