Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior
- From the annals of Tacitus we get a one-sided vision of the Romano-Germanic wars
- More recent scholarship
- Including Osprey's Teutoburg Forest Campaign book
- Paints a more balanced picture
- Yet
- There's still a lot of ground to cover on the subject
- The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany
- Following two decades of Roman occupation
- Germania Magna erupted into revolt in AD 9 following the loss of the three legions commanded by Publius Quinctilius Varus to the Cheruscan nobleman Arminius and an alliance of Germanic nations in the dense forests of the Teutoburger Wald
- The Romans' initial panic subsided as it became clear that Arminius and his allies could not continue the war into Germania Inferior on the western bank of the Rhine
