Decimation (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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You are probably familiar with the term decimation. The word is usually used in English to mean “to cause great destruction or harm”. However, to ancient Rome, the word had a very different and very specific meaning. It was one of the most devastating and brutal forms of punishment that the military could inflict. Learn more about Decimation, the ultimate collective punishment, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of everything everywhere daily.
0:04.0	You are probably familiar with the term decimation.
0:10.0	The word is usually used in English to mean to cause great destruction or harm.
0:15.0	However, to ancient Rome, the word had a very different and specific meaning.
0:20.0	It was one of the most devastating and brutal forms of punishment that the military
0:24.2	could inflict.
0:25.9	Learn more about decimation, the ultimate collective punishment on this episode of Everything
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1:15.0	Caesar's legions, the epic saga of Julius Caesar's elite 10th Legion and the armies of Rome
1:20.0	by Stephen Dando Collins.
1:22.0	Stephen Dando Collins.
1:23.0	Stephen Dando Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the 10th Legion
1:28.1	as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire.
1:32.3	This unprecedented regimental history reveals countless previously unknown details about Roman
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