Roman Road Chart
| Some Roman Roads |
| Road |
Date |
Place |
Builder |
Connections |
| Via Salaria |
4th cent BC |
Italia |
unknown |
Rome to Asculum to Castrum Truentinum |
| Via Appia |
312 BC |
Italia |
Appius Claudius Caecus |
Rome to Capua, Tarantum and Brundisium |
| Via Aurelia |
241 BC |
Italia |
Lucius Aurelia |
Rome to Pisa and into Gaul |
| Via Flaminia |
220 BC |
Italia |
Gaius Flaminius |
Rome to Ariminum |
| Via Cassia |
c. 187 BC |
Italia |
unknown |
Rome to Arretium |
| Via Postumia |
148 BC |
Italia |
Spurius Postumius Albinus |
Connected Genua, Placentia, Cremona, Bedriacum, Verona, Mantua, Altinum
and Aquileia. |
| Via Egnatia |
146 BC |
Italia |
Gaius Ignatius |
Illyria, Macedonia and Greece |
| Via Aquitania |
118 BC |
Gaul |
unknown |
Narbonne to Aquitaine |
| Via Domitia |
118 BC |
Gaul |
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus |
Italy to Spain |
| Via Aemilia Scaura |
109 BC |
Italia |
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus |
Pisa to Genoa to Placencia |
| Via Augusta |
8 BC |
Hispania |
Augustus |
Pyrenees mts. to Cadiz |
| Via Claudia Augusta |
13 BC |
Italia |
Augustus and Claudius |
Venice to southern Germania |
| Fosse Way |
Mid 1st Cent AD |
Britannia |
unknown |
Exter to Lincoln |
| Watling Street |
Mid 1st Cent AD |
Britannia |
unknown |
Dover to Wales |
| Stanegate |
1st - 2nd Cent. AD |
Britannia |
unknown |
The route followed by Hadrian's Wall |
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Did you know? After the slave revolt of Spartacus, as many as 5,000 to 6,000 captured slaves were lined up and crucified along the Via Appia, as an example to others.
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