Claudius, Germanicus und Divus Augustus

Abstract

In AD 9 the last embers of the Dalmatian revolt were extinguished, yet only four days after the news of victory came word that Varus had perished in Germany with three legions. Tiberius took over the command on the lower Rhine, supported from 11 and replaced from 13 by Germanicus, who pressed forward in annual campaigns until his recall in 17. He did not recover the lost territories, but he did recover part of the standards that had fallen into German hands when the army of Varus was destroyed. Three legionary eagles were lost according to the sources, but because the testimonies appear to contradict one another, no agreement has been reached on how many were regained. The paper sets out the passages in Tacitus and Cassius Dio and interprets them together with the coins.

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Suggested citation

Küthmann, Harald: Claudius, Germanicus und Divus Augustus. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 10 (1959/60), pp. 47–60, Tf.1.

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