The Dacian Wars of Domitian and Trajan

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

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🗓️ 18 January 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Dacians lived in modern day Romania, they had long been a threat along the borders of the Roman Empire. In 101AD Trajan launched the first of two campaigns against Dacia, eventually it would become a Roman province. Though poorly documented the conflict is celebrated on Trajans column in the centre of Rome, providing a spiralling view of the campaign, and at Adamclisi (in modern day Romania) which depicts brutal fighting between Roman Legionaries and Dacian warriors.

Jasper, Josho, Michael and Lindsay discuss how these actions fit in with other actions along Romans frontiers, a look at arms and armour, the lack of sources when looking at the campaign and we take a look at Trajan himself.

Dur: 37min

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0:33.9	Hello everyone. We're finally back with another Ancient War warfare magazine podcast. It's been a while.
0:39.7	We had some technical difficulties and difficulties trying to sync everybody's agenda.
0:44.2	And we're still not entirely complete, but we have a pretty good group.
0:48.1	With me today are Lindsay Powell, Michael Taylor, and Joshua Browers. Hi, guys.
0:55.8	Hello.
0:56.1	Michael, I believe you have an introduction for us about Trajan's Dacian Wars.
1:01.6	So the Dacians, an Indo-European people related to the Thracians, lived in modern-day
1:07.1	Romania, just north of the Danube River. For much of their history, they were politically
1:12.4	disunified until the strongman, Burabista, succeeded in forming a formidable kingdom in mid-first century
1:19.8	BC. Burabista was sufficiently strong enough to intervene in Rome's civil wars, where he supported
1:26.0	Pompey over Caesar. However, he faced a few
1:29.1	consequences for this sort of political mistake, thanks to Caesar's timely assassination. However,
1:35.2	he was in turn murdered by internal opponents, who were no doubt displeased by his rapid
1:40.6	assent to power and his centralizing tendencies. With Burabista's death, his centralized
1:46.2	kingdom collapsed, but the Dasha has nonetheless remained a formidable presence along the Danube,
1:51.4	and the raids left the Roman provinces of upper and lower Moesia depopulated and impoverished.
1:56.7	In the 80s AD, a new charismatic leader arose in Dachybalus. Dekeblis inflicted several shocking
2:05.9	setbacks on Roman forces in the 80s and early 90s, including the destruction of an entire
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