Ancient Rome · SITE OF MEMORY · 52 BC
Siege of Alesia (52 BC)
On the Ancient Rome map as “Alesia”
52 BC — Vercingetorix’s united Gaul dies in a double siege. The Gallic War’s cost, by ancient count: a million dead, a million enslaved, of a nation of three or four million. Remember the price of the arrows.
- When
- 52 BC
- Type
- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Julius Caesar and the civil war (chapter 5 of Ancient Rome)
- Atlas
- The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
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