08-16-2005, 05:13 PM
It is often assumed that during the reign of Augustus, the Romans tried to conquer Germania as far as the river Elbe. Is there an ancient source that actually says this?
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Conquest of Germany
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08-16-2005, 05:31 PM
I don't know much about this, but I think we can asume that they tried to do so by the Teutonenburg Forest-disaster. Or am I completely wrong?
08-16-2005, 06:22 PM
How's Res Gestae Divi Augusti 26: "The provinces of the Gauls, the Spains, and Germany, bounded by the ocean from Gades to the mouth of the Elbe [Albis], I reduced to a state of peace."?
08-16-2005, 06:26 PM
That's close, but it does not mean that the Elbe was to be a frontier...
08-16-2005, 07:14 PM
It does mean that Augustus claimed the entire area as his own/Roman (and therefore the edges are frontiers?).
08-16-2005, 11:16 PM
Hi all,
I think there is something in Pliny the Elder's Natural History. I wrote an article once on the possibility of Roman auxiliaries influencing the origin of the futhark and made te same statement. I should have put it in that - I'll take a look! There is also C M Wells The German Policy of Augustus: An Examination of the Archaeological Evidence (1972) which should have something. Cheers Murray
Murray K Dahm
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08-17-2005, 12:28 AM
Nero Claudius Drusus "conquered" Germany all the way to the Elbe.
But it didn't last very long and the dream of a Roman Germany was smashed at the Teutoburg. Here's a good link. [url:1xe2yv6m]http://63.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DR/DRUSUS_NERO_CLAUDIUS.htm[/url]
Pascal Sabas
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