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Archaeologists Discover Roman Battlefield in N.Germany - HISTORY & UPDATES

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« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2009, 06:56:34 pm »












Ancient Sources



The following is a list of all known references to the battle from the literary sources of classical antiquity.

Though the account provided in the Roman History is the most detailed of these, Dio Cassius' almost two century removal from the time of the event, as well as his use of detail mentioned by no earlier author, render it much more likely to be a literary re-imagining of the battle than a reliable historical record.





Ovid, Tristia (Sorrows), poetic verses written in 10 and 11

Marcus Manilius, Astronomica, poem written in early 1st Century

Strabo, Geographia 7:1.4, geographic-themed history written in perhaps 18

Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Roman History 2:117-120, history written 30

Tacitus, Annals 1.3, 1.10, 1.43, 1.55-71, 2.7, 2.41, 2.45, history written 109

Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Augustus 23, Tiberius 17-18, biographies written 121

Florus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri duo 2:30, history/panegyric written in early 2nd century

Dio Cassius, Roman History 56:18-24, history written in the first half of 3rd century




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