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by Derek Williams


  general

  origin and meaning of term

  view of Romans

  bribery

  growing strength

  confederations

  migrations

  barbaricum (barbarian lands)

  Roman intervention

  Roman view of

  flight into

  turbulence

  disturbances

  Basternians, German tribe

  ‘Batavian Island’

  Belgic Gauls

  Bennachie (see Mons Graupius)

  Berbers

  Black Sea

  character

  climate

  Greek colonies

  Rome

  Goths

  ‘Bohemian campaign’

  Boresti, British tribe

  Boudicca, British queen

  Brigantians, British tribe

  Britain

  Celticism?

  geography and climate

  vegetation

  agriculture

  society

  Roman superstition of

  buildings

  chariots

  forts

  coinage

  the North

  ‘Scotland’ (see also Agricola)

  Druids

  Belgic settlement

  trade with Rome

  arguments for invasion

  Caesar

  Caligula

  Claudius

  Bructeri, German tribe

  bucolic style

  Burabista, Dacian king

  Byron, Lord

  Caecina, V. Severus

  Caesar, Julius

  Caledonia

  Calgacus, British chieftain

  Caligula, emperor (AD 37–41)

  cannabis

  Caratacus, British prince

  Carlisle

  Carpathian frontier

  Carpathian mountains

  Cartimandua, British queen

  Cassivelaunus, British leader

  Caucasus

  Celts (see also Druids, La Tène)

  term

  origins

  place names

  settlement

  temperament

  disunity

  cultural achievement

  technical development

  comparison with Germans

  defensive works

  ‘oppida’

  Gaul

  Spain

  relations with Rome

  views of Rome

  conquest by Rome

  Cerialis, Petilius

  Chattans, German tribe

  Cherusci, German tribe

  Chicorius, Conrad

  chieftainly burials

  Cicero

  Cimbri, German tribe

  Claudius, emperor (AD 41–54)

  Clunn, J.A.S.

  Cogidubnus, British king

  Colchester

  commerce, Roman-barbarian

  Commodus, emperor (AD 180–192)

  Constantsa (see Tomis)

  Corbulo, Domitius, general

  Crimea

  Cynobellinus, British king

  Dacia

  Roman occupation

  Dacians

  Dacian War, First

  Dacian War, Second

  Danube

  Danube bridge

  David, Jacques, painter

  Decebal, Dacian king

  deductio in plana

  deserters, Roman

  Dio Cassius, historian

  Diodorus Siculus, historian

  Dioscurias (Sukhumi)

  diplomacy, Roman

  divination

  Domitia, empress

  Domitian, emperor (AD 81–96)

  character

  Chattan War

  Agricola

  Dacia

  Saturninus

  death

  Drobetae (Turnu Severin, Romania)

  Druids (and see Britain, Druids)

  Drusus, stepson of Augustus

  economy, Roman

  elephants in warfare

  Epistulae ex Ponto (see Ovid, Poems of Exile)

  Euripides

  Exeter

  Finns (Fenni)

  Flaccus, Roman officer

  Flavus, brother of Armin

  Florus, author

  fortifications, Roman

  Fosse Way (England)

  Frontier, Roman

  emergence

  security

  Africa

  East

  failure

  Frontinus, Julius, gov. of Britain

  frumentarii, secret police

  Fuscus Cornelius, praetorian prefect

  Galba, emperor (AD 68)

  Gaul

  Gauls

  Georgia

  German language

  German unification

  German War (see Augustus, German War)

  Germania (see Tacitus)

  Germanic kingdoms

  Germanicus, son of Drusus

  Germans (see also Augustus’ German War, Basternians, Chattans, Cherusci etc)

  development

  settlement

  migrations

  society

  women

  religion

  as drinkers

  diet

  clothing

  buildings

  shipbuilding

  warfare

  liberty

  resistance

  national identity

  Germany

  terrain

  rivers

  population

  agriculture

  commercial penetration

  prospect for conquest

  Roman coins

  as Roman province

  Getans, Sarmatian tribe (see also Ovid)

  Gibbon, Edward

  golden fleece legend

  Goths

  Graves, Robert

  Greek colonies, Black Sea

  Hadrian, emperor (AD 117–138)

  background

  succession

  pacifism

  foreign policy

  army

  Hadrianople, battle

  Hallstatt, Celtic culture

  Hercynian Forest

  Hermannsdenkmal (see also Armin)

  Herod Agrippa II

  Herodotus

  Hildesheim treasure

  Hippalus, navigator

  Histria, Pontic city

  Hod Hill, Dorset

  Horace

  human sacrifice

  Huns

  Iazyges, Sarmatian tribe

  Illyrican revolt

  Indo-European group

  Ireland

  Iron Gates

  Iron Gates Road

  Jason

  Jerome, St

  Jerusalem, siege

  Jordanes, historian

  Josephus, historian

  Jotapata (Judaea) siege

  Julia, Augustus’ daughter

  Julia, Augustus’ granddaughter

  La Tène, Celtic culture

  Langobards, German tribe

  Lehman-Hartleben K

  lex Julia

  Lincoln

  Lippe, river

  Livia, empress

  Livy

  ‘Lollian disaster’

  London

  Lucan

  Lunt fort (near Coventry)

  Maiden Castle, Dorset

  Main, river

  Mainz

  maps, Roman

  Maraboduus, Bohemian king

  marching camps

  Marcomannia (Bohemia)

  Marcomannic War

  Marcus Aurelius, emperor (AD 161–180)

  Marius, Caius, general

  Massalla, Corvinus, Ovid’s patron

  Maximus, T. Claudius, officer

  Mommsen, Theodor

  Mons Graupius, battle

  Moray Firth, Scotland

  murus Gallicus (see Celts, defensive works)

  Nero, emperor (AD
54–68)

  Nerva, emperor (AD 96–98)

  Netherlands (see also ‘Batavian Island’)

  prehistory

  Roman

  ‘noble savage’

  nomad-sedentary conflict

  nomadism (see also steppe)

  Noricum (Austria)

  North Sea

  Numantia (Spain)

  Octavian (see Augustus)

  Osnabrück

  Ostrogothic Italy

  Ovid

  various

  youth

  earlier work

  style

  Augustus

  arrest

  exile

  arrival in Tomis

  Poems of Exile

  pleas for release

  climatic descriptions

  fears

  Getans

  steppe

  composition

  affection for Tomis

  death

  influence

  summary

  Papia-Poppaea laws

  Parthia

  Paulinus, Suetonius, gov. of Britain

  pax Romana

  definition

  disarmament

  failure

  Plautius, Aulus, general

  Pliny the elder

  Pliny the younger

  Plutarch

  Pontic steppe (see steppe)

  Pontus Euxinus (see Black Sea)

  population

  Germany

  Britain

  Posidonius, author

  ‘prestige goods dependency’

  ‘princeps’

  principate

  Ptolemy, Claudius

  Quadans, German tribe

  Quietus, Lucius, general

  Raetia (Bavaria)

  Ravenna

  Rhine

  as boundary

  tributaries

  in German war

  Richmond, Sir Ian

  river transport

  Roman (see also agriculture, commerce, diplomacy, economy, fortifications, frontier, maps, principate, strategy, warfare, world conquest and world view)

  achievement

  and modern empires

  authors, bias

  barbarian trade (see commerce)

  barbarian relations

  complacency

  deficiencies

  empire’s extent

  eclecticism

  fear of barbarians

  law

  literature, barbarians in

  provinces

  propaganda

  republic’s collapse

  view of barbarians

  Romanian language

  Romanization

  Rossi, Lino

  Runic

  Sarmatians (see also Dacians, Getans and steppe peoples)

  origins and character

  cultural condition

  horsemanship

  weaponry

  wagons

  religion

  health

  component tribes

  arrival in West

  migration halted

  attacks on Roman territory

  Sarmizegetusa, Dacian capital

  Roman capital

  Saturninus, Antoninus

  Scapula, P. Ostorius, gov. of Britain

  Schlüter, Wolfgang

  Scott, Sir Walter

  Scyths

  Segestes (father-in-law of Armin)

  Septimius Severus, emperor (AD 193–211)

  Servius Tullus, Roman king

  Sigimer (father of Armin)

  slave trade

  Spain

  St. Albans

  St. Joseph, J.K.

  steppe (Eurasian grassland belt)

  steppe peoples (see also nomadism)

  Strabo, geographer

  strategy, Roman

  Suebians (German tribes)

  Suetonius, historian

  Sulmo (Italy)

  Tacitus, Cornelius, historian

  biographical

  style

  Agricola

  Annals

  Germania

  on Germans and Germany

  on German War

  on Gauls

  on Sarmatians

  on Roman peace

  on imperial responsibility

  Tanais, Pontic city

  Tapae (Dacia)

  Teutons (German tribe)

  Teutoburg Forest

  battle of

  location

  third century crisis

  Thusnelda (wife of Armin)

  Thule

  Thanet, Kent

  Tiberius, emperor (AD 14–47)

  German War

  retirements

  Titus, emperor (AD 79–81)

  Tomis

  insecurity

  and Rome

  Ovid’s descriptions

  trade (see Roman-barbarian commerce)

  Trajan, emperor (AD 98–117)

  background and early career

  popularity

  on Column

  on Adamclisi monument

  Parthia

  death

  Trajan’s Column

  general

  frieze

  interpretation

  artistic conventions

  army

  errors

  war artist

  narrative

  frontier on

  authorship

  Trajan’s Forum

  Transylvania

  Tristia (see Ovid, Poems of Exile)

  Tropaeum Traiani (see Adamclisi)

  Vandals

  ‘Varian disaster’

  Varus, P. Quintilius

  Vegetius, author

  Velleius Paterculus, historian

  Venutius, Brigantian pretender

  Vercingetorix

  Vespasian, emperor (AD 69–79)

  earlier career

  in Britain

  in Judaea

  accession

  sons

  British policy

  death

  Viking age

  Viminiacum (Serbia)

  Virgil

  Vistula, river

  Vitellius, Roman officer

  Vitruvius, author

  Waal (Vahales) river

  Wales, Conquest of

  warfare, Roman

  Weser, river

  Wheeler, Sir Mortimer

  Wiehen Hills (Germany)

  Wilde, Oscar

  wine trade

  world conquest, Roman expectation of

  world view, Roman

  ‘year of the four emperors’ (AD 69)

  York

  Also by Derek Williams

  The Reach of Rome

  ROMANS AND BARBARIANS: FOUR VIEWS FROM THE EMPIRE’S EDGE 1ST CENTURY AD. Copyright © 1998 by Derek Williams. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  First published in Great Britain by Constable and Company Ltd

  First U.S. Edition: February 1999

  eISBN 9781250083814

  First eBook edition: March 2015

 

 

 
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