Episode 373 - The Battle of Abritus

SEE US LIVE OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1501072671769 CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE SHOW? WE'RE STREAMING IT! GET YOUR LIVESTREAM TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1532091008449 SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys It is never a good time to go hiking in the swamp with 100,000 of your friends and two Emperors. Sources: https://earth-history.com/Europe/Goths/jordanes-goths-04-3rdcentury.htm https://historycollection.com/two-roman-emperors-brutally-died-battle-251-ad/ Jones, Christopher P. Further Dexippus (Online). Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. "Philippolis: Roman Disaster on the Western Border." Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9. No. 5 The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD