The Campaigns of Gnaeus Julius Agricola

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 14 March 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Jasper and team go back to the first Ancient Warfare magazine and discuss the career of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the issues of the sources such a Tacitus and his use of axillery troops among over things. Gnaeus Julius Agricola was govenor of Britain from 77AD, he was responsible for much of the expansion of Roman terrioty in Britain and sent his army North into Caledonia, modern day scotland. After an unusually length period as governor he returned to Rome in 85AD. Dur: 42min

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any
0:06.4	comments or ideas, email editor at ancient-warfare.com. And for other discussions, check out the
0:15.4	ancient warfare forum, which you can find a link to at www.w.com.
0:23.9	You can also find all the History Network podcasts by going to www.thehistorynetwork.org.
0:33.2	Hi everyone. We're back with another Ancient Warfare podcast. We decided to increase our frequency this year.
0:39.8	So one way to do that will be to go back to the issues we never discussed on air, as it were.
0:47.3	So today we're going back down memory lane to the very first ancient warfare that came out in June of 2007 and which dealt with
0:57.2	the campaigns of Gaius Julius Agricola. With me tonight are two members of our usual team,
1:05.4	Michael Taylor and Lindsay Powell. Hi guys. Hi. here. So let's start off, Julius Agricola.
1:11.9	Where shall we begin?
1:12.9	Looking at something like the Agricola, it definitely makes you appreciate just how much
1:16.9	has been lost in this area of history.
1:19.3	In any other period of early modern, even medieval history, you know, so many insignificant
1:24.5	bishops and generals and people that, you know, we have tremendous amounts
1:29.8	of information on them. You know, there's really very few Roman provincial governors that we have
1:34.9	a ton of literary data for it. The other really one, and I guess he was a sort of procurritor
1:41.1	was plenty of younger who we have his letters to Trajan.
1:44.5	Oh, yeah.
1:45.3	But Agricla is also unique in that he's a provincial governor, and we have a really good
1:50.2	sense of what he's doing during his tenure.
1:53.8	It's really one thing that makes him unique.
1:55.3	As far as I've known off the top of my head, he had one of the longest tenures, at least in Britain as a provincial
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