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We continue our Units of History documentary series on one of the many "barbarian" foes from antiquity that all too often get stereotyped as wild brutes. In this full documentary episode though we dive deep into the much more nuanced history of the Germanic Warriors. We begin with an exploration of Germania itself which is quite difficult to define from a top down perspective. As a result we end up looking at their world from the bottom up as they would have seen it. This involves a huge social web that started at the basic family farm and eventually built its way up to the clan and tribe level.
We discuss the weapons and armour of these Germanic warriors, how they trained, how they organized, and how they fought in battle. We then conclude with a summary of their service history which stretches over many centuries. Primarily this involves their interactions with the Roman Army starting from the Cimbrian War with Gaius Marius to the Gallic War with Julius Caesar during the Roman Republic and the later decades long struggle of the Germanic Wars that stretched out over the course of the Early Roman Empire. This latter conflict saw the famous events like the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and the Idistaviso. We cover it in more military history between the German and Roman Army during our Avenging Varus series.
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Credits:
Research: Eric TenWolde
Script: Eric TenWolde
Narration: Guy Michaels
Artwork: Penta Limited
Bibliography and Suggested Reading:
Powell, Lindsay, “Combat 6: Roman Soldier versus Germanic Warrior”, Osprey Publishing, 2014
Wilcox, Peter, “Men-at-Arms 129: Rome's Enemies (1) Germanics and Dacians”, Osprey Publishing, 1982
MacDowall, Simon, “Warrior 17: Germanic Warrior 236-568 AD”, Osprey Publishing, 1996
McNally, Michael, “Campaign 228: Teutoburg Forest AD 9”, Osprey Publishing, 2011
D'Amato, Raffaele & Frediani, Andrea, “Campaign 336: Strasbourg AD 357”, Osprey Publishing, 2019
Elton, Hugh, “Warfare In Roman Europe AD 350-425”, Oxford University Press, 1996
Kiley, Kevin F., “An Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Uniforms Of The Roman World”, Lorenz Books, 2017
Goldsworthy, Adrian, “In The Name Of Rome: The Men Who Won The Roman Empire”, Phoenix, 2004
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