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Rome’s Greatest Defeat: The Teutoburg Forest Massacre
In the dense, misty woods of Germania, three Roman legions marched to their doom. This video unpacks the Battle of Teutoburg ...
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. Pp. 608. Illus., maps, diagr., tables, biblio., index. $40.00. ISBN: 1250004713 The prolific Australian novelist and scholar Dando ...
It was a cold and wet September day, 9 AD. Mist and drizzle covered three Roman legions and their followers traversing ...
Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...
Fortified by forts and watchtowers, the 1,700-mile river formed the empire's northern border, with Rome on one side and Germanic tribes on the other. The Great Ludovisi sarcophagus depicts the chaos ...
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. The mystery of the disappearance of Rome’s IX Legion Hispana inspires yet another ...
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