The Appian Way - Via Appia) is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius: The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC[4] during the Samnite Tomb of Hilarus Fuscus is a funerary monument, located near the fourth mile of the Appian Way or Via Appia Antica

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