war in Latium

Target entity: war in Latium
Context triple: [Virgil's Aeneid, containsEpisode, war in Latium]

• A. Roman conquest of southern Italy
  The Roman conquest of southern Italy was a series of wars and campaigns in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE through which the Roman Republic subdued the Greek city-states and other peoples of the Italian south, paving the way for its dominance over the Mediterranean.
• B. Pyrrhic War
  The Pyrrhic War was an early 3rd-century BCE conflict in which King Pyrrhus of Epirus fought Rome in southern Italy, giving rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory” for costly, ruinous successes.
• C. Battle of Trebia
  The Battle of Trebia was a major early victory for Hannibal during the Second Punic War, where his Carthaginian forces decisively defeated a larger Roman army in northern Italy in 218 BC.
• D. Punic Wars
  The Punic Wars were a series of three major conflicts between ancient Rome and Carthage that ultimately led to Roman dominance over the western Mediterranean.
• E. Dacian Wars
  The Dacian Wars were a series of early 2nd-century Roman military campaigns in which Emperor Trajan conquered the Dacian kingdom, expanding the Roman Empire and securing its northeastern frontier.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: war in Latium
Target entity description: The war in Latium is the climactic conflict in Virgil’s Aeneid in which Aeneas battles the native Italian tribes, especially Turnus and the Rutulians, to secure a future homeland for the Trojans in Italy.

• A. Roman conquest of southern Italy
  The Roman conquest of southern Italy was a series of wars and campaigns in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE through which the Roman Republic subdued the Greek city-states and other peoples of the Italian south, paving the way for its dominance over the Mediterranean.
• B. Pyrrhic War
  The Pyrrhic War was an early 3rd-century BCE conflict in which King Pyrrhus of Epirus fought Rome in southern Italy, giving rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory” for costly, ruinous successes.
• C. Battle of Trebia
  The Battle of Trebia was a major early victory for Hannibal during the Second Punic War, where his Carthaginian forces decisively defeated a larger Roman army in northern Italy in 218 BC.
• D. Punic Wars
  The Punic Wars were a series of three major conflicts between ancient Rome and Carthage that ultimately led to Roman dominance over the western Mediterranean.
• E. Dacian Wars
  The Dacian Wars were a series of early 2nd-century Roman military campaigns in which Emperor Trajan conquered the Dacian kingdom, expanding the Roman Empire and securing its northeastern frontier.
• F. None of above. chosen