Peter S. Wells

The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

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In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this defeat, the shocked Romans ended all efforts to expand beyond the Rhine, which became the fixed border between Rome and Germania for the next 400 years, and which remains the cultural border between Latin western Europe and Germanic central and eastern Europe today.This fascinating narrative introduces us to the key protagonists: the emperor Au… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-32643-7
EAN: 9780393326437
Produktnummer: 19418582
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.8 cm 245 g
Gewicht: 245

Über den Autor

Peter S. Wells is professor of archaeology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Battle That Stopped Rome and The Barbarians Speak. He lives in St. Paul.