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Ancient Warfare Podcast

Varus & The Teutoburg Forest

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

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

4.4631 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2009

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

To commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the loss of legions XVII, XVIII (aka XIIX) and XIX somewhere in northern Germany, Ancient Warfare magazine published a special issue. In this episode of the podcast Jasper discusses with Murray Dahm and Lindsay Powell issues that the magazine brought up. File: .mp3 Dur: 1hr

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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.com.

0:21.3

You can also find all the History Network podcasts by going to www.thehistorynetwork.org.

0:33.2

Hello everyone. It's time for another podcast. And this time we're going to discuss the Varian disaster in relation to the special issue.

0:41.5

We just brought out this spring about the Battle in the Tudorburg Forest, 9-A.D.

0:47.9

And joining me tonight, for me that is, our Philip Lindsay Powell and Murray Dan. Good evening, both of you. Good evening. Hello.

0:58.8

This is a very wide subject. Where shall we kick it off? So did you want to limit this conversation?

1:06.2

Because this could this could spread over a whole bunch of subjects, couldn't it? Otherwise, we could be

1:09.8

chatting for hours? Just looking at the special.

1:12.5

I thought it was fairly extensive.

1:13.9

But it covers about 34 to 40 years.

1:16.2

I mean, it's quite a...

1:16.8

Well, yeah, that's true.

1:18.7

But the focus is very clearly, it's a Tudorburg forest.

1:22.8

The limited detail you can go into about the battle itself,

1:25.8

because we could discuss

1:27.5

certainly could discuss a little bit the uh the whole the continuing story of its location

1:33.8

and i think yonah's paper which was about basically you know really when you bought it down

1:38.2

there's only like about six things you can see with any certain to or seven things i thought that

1:42.5

was important yeah since actually since jona wrote, since the issue came out, we both went to the

1:49.0

Vezo River, we went to the Minden Gap, actually.

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