The author examines the preconditions and circumstances of Germanicus' campaign in 16 AD against the Arminius coalition. Although Germanicus is said to have fought two major victorious battles against Arminius at Idistaviso and at the Angrivarian Wall, he did not succeed in permanently defeating the hostile Germanic tribes. This led to his dismissal by Emperor Tiberius due to the extremely loss-laden and unsuccessful overall balance of his mission in Germania. This was the end of the Roman attempts to conquer free Germania. Tacitus describes in his account, the only one that has survived, that Germanicus had "a thousand ships" built in a very short time, on which he is said to have sailed from the Rhine to the left mouth of the Ems with the entire army of 80,000 men, thousands and thousands of horses, heavy war equipment and the large quantity of provisions. Brepohl knowledgeably explains in detail why this cannot be true for temporal, logistical, geographical and military reasons. He also refutes the previously held view that the Angrivarian Wall was a border wall.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Brepohl, W.
Title
Arminius gegen Germanicus
Details
2nd, expanded and updated edition. Paperback. 172 pages.
State
new
Aschendorff Verlag GmbH Soester Str. 13 48155 Münster Deutschland
