Episode CLXXIII - Arminius
Emperors of Rome
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The Battle of Tutburg Forest
The battle of tutburg forest becomes a kind of almost apocalyptic event in the roman imagination when they're talking out it. It is something that they're not used to at all, which is why arminius becomes this kind of, almost like a burgy man to them. And so he gives this kind of this general over view of arminius life as someone who was originally an ally and then turned against him. But alminius is quite character in tacitus's telling of germanicus.
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