Rethinking Rome’s “Most Reluctant” Emperor
Iskander Rehman, Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, Arminius of the Cherusci, who had shamed Roman honor at saltus Teutoburgiensis, the site of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. All had failed. Then, in AD 17, the war chief of the rival Chatti nation, named Adgandestrius, approached the Romans with an offer he thought they could not refuse. Give him poison, he proposed, and he The post Rethinking Rome’s “Most Reluctant” Emperor appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Iskander Rehman, Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, Arminius of the Cherusci, who had shamed Roman honor at saltus Teutoburgiensis, the site of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. All had failed. Then, in AD 17, the war chief of the rival Chatti nation, named Adgandestrius, approached the Romans with an offer he thought they could not refuse. Give him poison, he proposed, and he
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