page_title: Battle of the Aegates
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of the Aegates / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Il "Tempio A" dell'Area Sacra di Largo di Torre Argentina a Roma, risalente al III secolo a.C. Si ipotizza che corrisponda al tempio di Giuturna (ninfa delle fonti) o del tempio di Iunonis Curritis. Il primo fu fatto costruire da Quinto Lutazio Catulo dopo la vittoria dei romani contro Falerii nel 241 a.C.; il secondo da Quinto Lutazio Cercone a seguito della vittoria sui Falerii del suo parente Quinto Lutazio Cercone, sempre nel 241 a.C. L'identificazione più probabile è la prima. Su questo tempio venne costruita la chiesa di San Nicola dei Cesarini, di cui sono ancora presenti alcuni resti (come le absidi, ed un altare). English: "taken by me, but it's not at an article, I uploaded it so I could ask what the ruins were called" - said Adam Carr. The photo is public domain so if there is an article it can be attached to, feel free. Adam 02:00, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC). It is the en:Largo di Torre Argentina, Roman ruins in en:Rome, on the en:Campus Martius, the place where en:Julius Caesar was stabbed. Temple A (to en:Juturna), with part of Temple B on the left. On the back, the modern en:Teatro Argentina.
context_page_description: The Battle of the Aegates was a naval battle fought on 10 March 241 BC between the fleets of Carthage and Rome during the First Punic War. It took place among the Aegates Islands, off the western coast of the island of Sicily. The Carthaginians were commanded by Hanno, and the Romans were under the overall authority of Gaius Lutatius Catulus, but Quintus Valerius Falto commanded during the battle. It was the final and deciding battle of the 23-year-long First Punic War.
  The Roman army had been blockading the Carthaginians in their last strongholds on the west coast of Sicily for several years. Almost bankrupt, the Romans borrowed money to build a naval fleet, which they used to extend the blockade to the sea. The Carthaginians assembled a larger fleet which they intended to use to run supplies into Sicily. It would then embark much of the Carthaginian army stationed there as marines. It was intercepted by the Roman fleet and in a hard-fought battle, the better-trained Romans defeated the undermanned and ill-trained Carthaginian fleet, which was further handicapped by being laden with supplies and having not yet embarked its full complement of marines.
context_section_description: Catulus was granted a triumph to celebrate his victory, while Falto was granted a separate and slightly junior triumph. To celebrate the victory, Catulus built a temple to Juturna in the Campus Martius, in the area of Rome currently known as the Largo di Torre Argentina.
  After achieving this decisive victory over the Carthaginian fleet, Catulus continued the land operations in Sicily against Lilybaeum, Eryx and Drepana; which continued to be defended by Hamilcar Barca and his army. The Carthaginian Senate was reluctant to allocate the resources necessary to have another fleet built and manned. Carthage had taken nine months to fit out the fleet that was defeated, and if they took another nine months to ready another fleet, the Sicilian cities still holding out would run out of supplies and request terms. Strategically, therefore, Carthage would have to build a fleet capable of defeating the Roman fleet, and then raise an army capable of defeating the Roman armies in Sicily. Instead, the Carthaginian Senate ordered Hamilcar to negotiate a peace treaty with the Romans, which he left up to his subordinate commander, Gisco. The Treaty of Lutatius was signed in the same year as the Battle of the Aegates and brought the First Punic War to its end; Carthage evacuated Sicily, handed over all prisoners taken during the war, and paid an indemnity of 3,200 talents over ten years.
  Henceforth Rome was the leading military power in the western Mediterranean, and increasingly the Mediterranean region as a whole. The Romans had built over 1,000 galleys during the war; and this experience of building, manning, training, supplying and maintaining such numbers of ships laid the foundation for Rome's maritime dominance for 600 years.
caption: Remains of the Temple of Juturna at Largo di Torre Argentina, built by Gaius Lutatius Catulus to celebrate his victory
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