{"id":112296,"date":"2022-09-30T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=112296"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:27:11","slug":"easy-conquest-of-rome-by-gauls","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/easy-conquest-of-rome-by-gauls\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy conquest of Rome by Gauls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conquest of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> by the Gauls in 390 BCE in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-literature\/roman-historiography\/\">Roman historiography<\/a>, it appeared as one of the most tragic events in the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/history-of-rome\/\">history of Rome<\/a>. The city was to be conquered by the tribe of Gauls, who were most likely looking for new lands, or simply a group of Gallic mercenaries looking for new prey.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">Roman army<\/a> was defeated on the Alia River, the Gauls did not move on to Rome right away, as they were surprised by their easy victory. The Romans, who did not expect a siege, ignored the information from a plebeian with the surname <em>Caedicius<\/em> (the nickname meant &#8220;the seer of misfortune&#8221;) who warned of the march of the Gauls, led by Brennus, into the city. As it turned out, ignoring the warnings meant the city was captured by the Gauls.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, only the holy hill of Rome &#8211; the Capitoline Hill &#8211; was saved from the Gauls, and the Gauls were defeated and driven out by the victorious Roman commander and hero <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/marcus-furius-camillus\/\">Camillus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47919,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[],"class_list":["post-112296","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/112296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/112296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=112296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}