The battle of Sentinum (295 BC). Its location in a recent hypothesis

The article examines the recent proposal advanced by Giulio Firpo about the placement of Sentinum and the battle fought there in 295. In his opinion, the battle was fought near Piano del Sentino, at Rapolano (Siena). His arguments concern the presence of galatomachies in the area of Clusium, of the Etruscan sentinate family, and of philological problems in Livy, together with general considerations on oral transmission for the Roman historical tradition and on Roman colonisation. Firpo’s hypothesis cannot be accepted, but it has the indisputable merit of pointing out the existence of an otherwise unknown Etruscan settlement, *Sentinum. The battle of Sentinum remains firmly in the modern Sassoferrato (Ancona).