The battle that stopped Rome : Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the slaughter of the legions in the Teutoburg Forest
In A.D. 9, a traitor from the Roman military named Arminius led an army of barbarians who trapped, and then ferociously butchered, three entire Roman legions, a quarter of the Roman army stationed north of the Alps. It was a blow from which the empire never recovered. If not for that battle, the Roman Empire might have extended as far as present-day Russia. However, after this disaster, the demoralized Romans ended their efforts to push beyond the Rhine, which remains to this day the cultural border between Latin Western Europe and Germanic Central Europe. Wells describes life within the magnificent city of Rome and on the Roman frontier, puts a human face on the barbarians of lore, and leads the reader through the mud, blood and slaughter that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.--From publisher description
History
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780393352030, 039335203X
916047755
Ambushed!
Creation of the legend
History and archaeology of the battle
Augustus : Rome's first emperor
Varus and the frontier
Arminius : the native hero
Warfare in early Roman Europe : prelude to the battle
The battle
The horror : death on the battlefield
The victors' celebrations
The immediate outcome
The meaning of the battle
Sources and suggestions for further reading
Appendixes: How an archaeological site is formed ; Roman weapons found at the Kalkriese battle site ; Museums, Roman remains, and archeological parks
Includes index
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