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Chronicles the defeat of the Roman army by German barbarian forces, citing the contributions of a Roman traitor that led to the brutal deaths of three Roman legions during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and caused the Roman empire to cease its expansion.
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Peter S. Wells is professor of archaeology at the University of Minnesota. He is one of the leading American scholars specializing in the European archaeology of the pre-Roman and Roman periods, and is the author of the award-winning The Barbarians Speak.
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Clearly and effectively written, Wells' volume -part popular history and part archaeological monograph-recounts one of the most catastrophic military defeats in history: the loss of three Roman legions, what amounted to 20,000 men (accompanied by an unspecified number of women and children), in the Teutoburg Forest of Germany. In A.D. 9, led by Varius, the Romans crossed the Rhine and marched confidently into the forests, convinced that a previous expedition had subdued the Germanic barbarians. They were under two misconceptions, as Wells demonstrates. First, the Germans had learned much from the Romans about weaponry and strategy; and second, they had no wish to submit to Rome. Led by Arminius, who had served in the Roman forces, the Germans prepared a trap in the forest, utilizing a narrow trail in which the Romans could not maneuver and a camouflaged wall to conceal their troops. The ruse was successful: the Romans were annihilated, and their dream of world conquest ended in humiliation. Arminius became a national hero, symbol of Germanic defiance against ancient Rome, and later, symbolically, of German resistance to Catholic Rome during the Reformation. Wells, who is a professor of archaeology at the University of Minnesota and an expert on European archeology of pre-Roman and Roman times, gives the story in clear and engrossing detail.
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Condition: Gut. 256 p., plates. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed dust jacket, allover very good. / Minimal beriebener Schutzumschlag, insgesamt sehr gut. - 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. The 20,000 soldiers who were cut down represented a quarter of the Roman army stationed north of the Alps. It was a blow from which the empire never recovered. If not for the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, the Roman Empire would likely have expanded to the Elbe River, and then to the Baltic Sea, and perhaps eastward into present-day Russia. However, after this shocking disaster, the weakened and demoralized Romans ended their efforts to push beyond the Rhine River, which thus became the fixed border between Rome and Germania for the next four hundred years. To this day, the Rhine remains the cultural border between Latin western Europe and Germanic central Europe. This is a tale that could not be told until quite recently because archaeologists, who literally searched for the site of the battle for centuries, found it only fifteen years ago. In the expert hands of Wells, one of the world's leading archaeologists of ancient Europe, the book accomplishes two goals. First, it tells the story of the watershed battle itselfwhere and how it was fought, the clever tactics used by the barbarians, and the fatal mistakes made by the overconfident Romans. Second, it surveys life in the Roman Empire and in the lands of its neighbors at its very peak through the prism of the three protagonists. Through Augustus, the most powerful of all the emperors, Wells describes life within the magnificent city of Rome. The trappings of power were everywhere, and the author explains where it all came from. Through Varus, the Roman general who would be the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time, the reader learns about life on the Roman frontier, the border lands between territory held by Rome and those regions controlled by peoples whom the Romans considered barbarians. Through Arminius, the charismatic Germanic chieftain, Wells puts a human face on the barbarians of lore. As a one-time member of the Roman forces, Arminius had witnessed firsthand what conquest by Rome meant. Leaving the Roman army, he returned to his native land and convinced a huge number of his fellow tribesmen to confront the Roman threat. As a result of his resounding success, Arminius was later celebrated as the first German hero. In the final chapters of the book and in graphic detail, Wells leads the reader through the mud, blood, and slaughter that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. He also describes the pagan celebration rituals probably practiced by the victors on their Roman captivesacts well documented in the archaeological evidence from this violent era of Europe's early history. - Peter S. Wells is professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He is among the leading archaeologists specializing in pre-Roman and Roman Europe, and he is the author of the award-winning The Barbarians Speak. He lives with his wife in St. Paul. Minnesota. ISBN 9780393020281 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 414 Original hardcover with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1168067
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