Re: Germanicus Caesar and Arminius, A.D.14-17.

Raktizer Omheit wrote:
> The Romans in the early years of the Emoire made several attempts to conquer
> the Germanic lands as far as the Elbe River, but by the time that they were
> ready to conquer what is now Germany, the Roman armies were overstretched in
> maintaining their geographically vast and ethnically diverse empire. In
> addition, the Romans suffered a severe setback in their attempt to conquer
> the German lands east of the Rhine River, and north of the Neckar and Main
> Rivers, when the legions under the command of the Roman general Publius
> Quinctilius Varus were ambushed in several guerrilla-style attrition attacks
> in the heavily forested and mountainous Teutoburger Wald in A.D.9 by the
> warriors of the German chieftain Arminius, a former pro-Roman mercenary
> soldier. This defeat for the Romans was soon enough avenged by the Roman
> armies led by the Roman general called Germanicus Caesar who led a campaign
> against the German tribes living east of the Rhine River from A.D. 14-17,
> inflicting several defeats on the Germans in the process, including wounding
> Arminius and recapturing the stolen legionary colours or standards of Varus
> in A.D.16. Arminius's pregnant wife Thusnelda was also captured by the
> Romans, and she was sent to Italy where she gave birth to a boy. [snip]

For more details about Germanicus, Arminius, his wife, and his
father-in-law Segestes, read Tacitus, "The Annals of Imperial Rome,"
Penguin Classics (1996) trans. By Michael Grant.

"Segestes' daughter, engaged to another man, was stolen by Arminius."
[p 64]

"A son was born to Arminius' wife; he was brought up at Ravenna." [p
66]

Arminius was not a mercenary, but a Roman citizen who "had commanded a
Cheruscan force in the Roman Army." [p 82]

" ... Italicus, son of Flavus (Arminius' brother) and of a daughter
of Acumerus, chief of the Chatti. Italicus was kept at Rome--a handsome
man, trained to fight and ride in both the German and Roman style. [p
238]

DR

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