01-19-2009, 11:55 PM
Quote:The book to read is Adrian Murdoch, Rome's Greatest Defeat. Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest; (Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2006) ISBN 0-7509-4015-8.
The book to avoid is Peter Wells, The Battle That Stopped Rome (2003). The author appears to believe that writing for a more general audience is a license to be inaccurate. Inventing a twenty-sixth legion is just one error. I wrote him, but of course he did not reply.
Out of curiosity, what are some of the other errors he commits? He seems to have incurred the ire of quite a few people.
Multi viri et feminae philosophiam antiquam conservant.
James S.
James S.
