Now, as someone who has loved Roman history since I was very young, this is one I will be listening to this morning.
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, In Our Time, Radio 4, today at 9 am
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Roman military disaster of 9 AD when Germanic tribes under Arminius ambushed and destroyed three legions under Varus.
According to Suetonius, emperor Augustus hit his head against the wall when he heard the news, calling on Varus to give him back his legions.
The defeat ended Roman expansion east of the Rhine. Victory changed the development of the Germanic peoples, both in the centuries that followed and in the nineteenth century when Arminius, by then known as Herman, became a rallying point for German nationalism.
With Peter Heather, Ellen O'Gorman, and Matthew Nicholls
Producer: Simon Tillotson"*
Picture; Airfix models, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f69q
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Roman military disaster of 9 AD when Germanic tribes under Arminius ambushed and destroyed three legions under Varus.
According to Suetonius, emperor Augustus hit his head against the wall when he heard the news, calling on Varus to give him back his legions.
The defeat ended Roman expansion east of the Rhine. Victory changed the development of the Germanic peoples, both in the centuries that followed and in the nineteenth century when Arminius, by then known as Herman, became a rallying point for German nationalism.
With Peter Heather, Ellen O'Gorman, and Matthew Nicholls
Producer: Simon Tillotson"*
Picture; Airfix models, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f69q
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