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Sommers Weltliteratur On Air - Vol. 5 - Heinrich von KleistBetween 6 and 9 CE, the Romans were forced to move eight of eleven legions present in Germania east of the Rhine river to crush a rebellion in the Balkans , leaving Varus with only three legions to face the Germans.
Varus decided to quell this uprising immediately, expediting his response by taking a detour through territory that was unfamiliar to the Romans.
Arminius, who accompanied him, directed him along a route that would facilitate an ambush. His warning, however, was dismissed as stemming from the personal feud between Segestes and Arminius.
Arminius then left under the pretext of drumming up Germanic forces to support the Roman campaign. Once free from prying eyes, he immediately led his troops in a series of attacks on the surrounding Roman garrisons.
Most of these lacked combat experience, both with regard to Germanic fighters, and under the prevalent local conditions. The Roman forces were not marching in combat formation, and were interspersed with large numbers of camp followers.
As they entered the forest northeast of Osnabrück, they found the track narrow and muddy. According to Dio Cassius a violent storm had also arisen.
He also writes that Varus neglected to send out reconnaissance parties ahead of the main body of troops. The line of march was now stretched out perilously long—between 15 and 20 kilometres 9.
The attackers surrounded the entire Roman army, and rained down javelins on the intruders. The Romans managed to set up a fortified night camp, and the next morning broke out into the open country north of the Wiehen Hills , near the modern town of Ostercappeln.
The break-out was accompanied by heavy losses to the Roman survivors, as was a further attempt to escape by marching through another forested area, as the torrential rains continued.
The Romans undertook a night march to escape, but marched into another trap that Arminius had set, at the foot of Kalkriese Hill. There a sandy, open strip on which the Romans could march was constricted by the hill, so that there was a gap of only about metres between the woods and the swampland at the edge of the Great Bog.
The road was further blocked by a trench, and, towards the forest, an earthen wall had been built along the roadside, permitting the Germanic alliance to attack the Romans from cover.
The Romans made a desperate attempt to storm the wall, but failed, and the highest-ranking officer next to Varus, Legatus Numonius Vala , abandoned the troops by riding off with the cavalry.
His retreat was in vain, however, as he was overtaken by the Germanic cavalry and killed shortly thereafter, according to Velleius Paterculus.
The Germanic warriors then stormed the field and slaughtered the disintegrating Roman forces. Varus committed suicide, [25] and Velleius reports that one commander, Praefectus Ceionius, surrendered, then later took his own life, [31] while his colleague Praefectus Eggius died leading his doomed troops.
Roman casualties have been estimated at 15,—20, dead, and many of the officers were said to have taken their own lives by falling on their swords in the approved manner.
All Roman accounts stress the completeness of the Roman defeat. The finds at Kalkriese of 6, pieces of Roman equipment, but only a single item that is clearly Germanic part of a spur , suggests few Germanic losses.
However, the victors would most likely have removed the bodies of their fallen, and their practice of burying their warriors' battle gear with them would have also contributed to the lack of Germanic relics.
Additionally, several thousand Germanic soldiers were deserting militiamen and wore Roman armour, and thus would appear to be "Roman" in the archaeological digs.
It is also known that the Germanic peoples wore perishable organic material, such as leather, and less metal. The victory was followed by a clean sweep of all Roman forts, garrisons and cities of which there were at least two east of the Rhine; the remaining two Roman legions in Germania, commanded by Varus' nephew Lucius Nonius Asprenas , were content to try to hold the Rhine.
One fort, Aliso, most likely located in today's Haltern am See , [33] fended off the Germanic alliance for many weeks, perhaps even a few months.
After the situation became untenable, the garrison under Lucius Caedicius, accompanied by survivors of Teutoburg Forest, broke through the siege, and reached the Rhine.
They resisted long enough for Lucius Nonius Asprenas to organize the Roman defence on the Rhine with two legions and Tiberius to arrive with a new army, preventing Arminius from crossing the Rhine and invading Gaul.
Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus , according to the Roman historian Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars , was so shaken that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting:.
Quintili Vare, legiones redde! Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions! This was in contrast to other legions that were reestablished after suffering defeat.
Another example of permanent disbandment was the XXII Deiotariana legion, which may have ceased to exist after incurring heavy losses when deployed against Jewish rebels during the Bar Kokba revolt — CE in Judea.
The battle abruptly ended the period of triumphant Roman expansion that followed the end of the Civil Wars forty years earlier.
Augustus' stepson Tiberius took effective control, and prepared for the continuation of the war. Arminius sent Varus' severed head to Maroboduus , king of the Marcomanni , the other most powerful Germanic ruler , with the offer of an anti-Roman alliance.
Maroboduus declined, sending the head to Rome for burial, and remained neutral throughout the ensuing war. Only thereafter did a brief, inconclusive war break out between the two Germanic leaders.
Though the shock at the slaughter was enormous, the Romans immediately began a slow, systematic process of preparing for the reconquest of the country.
In 14 CE, just after Augustus' death and the accession of his heir and stepson Tiberius , a massive raid was conducted by the new emperor's nephew Germanicus.
He attacked the Marsi with the element of surprise. The Bructeri , Tubanti , and Usipeti were roused by the attack and ambushed Germanicus on the way to his winter quarters, but were defeated with heavy losses.
The next year was marked by two major campaigns and several smaller battles with a large army estimated at 55,—70, men, backed by naval forces.
In spring 15 CE, Legatus Caecina Severus invaded the Marsi a second time with about 25,—30, men, causing great havoc.
Meanwhile, Germanicus' troops had built a fort on Mount Taunus from where he marched with about 30,—35, men against the Chatti.
Many of the men fled across a river and dispersed themselves in the forests. Germanicus next marched on Mattium caput gentis and burned it to the ground.
According to Tacitus , they found heaps of bleached bones and severed skulls nailed to trees, which they buried, " At a location Tacitus calls the pontes longi "long causeways" , in boggy lowlands somewhere near the Ems, Arminius' troops attacked the Romans.
Arminius initially caught Germanicus' cavalry in a trap, inflicting minor casualties, but the Roman infantry reinforced the rout and checked them.
The fighting lasted for two days, with neither side achieving a decisive victory. Germanicus' forces withdrew and returned to the Rhine.
He forced a crossing of the Weser near modern Minden , suffering some losses to a Germanic skirmishing force, and forced Arminius' army to stand in open battle at Idistaviso in the Battle of the Weser River.
Germanicus' legions inflicted huge casualties on the Germanic armies while sustaining only minor losses. A final battle was fought at the Angrivarian Wall west of modern Hanover , repeating the pattern of high Germanic fatalities, which forced them to flee beyond the Elbe.
With his main objectives reached and winter approaching, Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet incurring some damage from a storm in the North Sea.
Germanicus was recalled to Rome and informed by Tiberius that he would be given a triumph and reassigned to a new command.
Germanicus' campaign had been taken to avenge the Teutoburg slaughter and also partially in reaction to indications of mutinous intent amongst his troops.
Arminius, who had been considered a very real threat to stability by Rome, was now defeated. Once his Germanic coalition had been broken and honour avenged, the huge cost and risk of keeping the Roman army operating beyond the Rhine was not worth any likely benefit to be gained.
The third legionary standard was recovered in 41 CE by Publius Gabinius from the Chauci during the reign of Claudius , brother of Germanicus.
The last chapter was recounted by the historian Tacitus. Around 50 CE, bands of Chatti invaded Roman territory in Germania Superior , possibly an area in Hesse east of the Rhine that the Romans appear to have still held, and began to plunder.
The Roman commander, Publius Pomponius Secundus , and a legionary force supported by Roman cavalry recruited auxiliaries from the Vangiones and Nemetes.
They attacked the Chatti from both sides and defeated them, and joyfully found and liberated Roman prisoners, including some from Varus' legions who had been held for 40 years.
From the time of the rediscovery of Roman sources in the 15th century the Battles of the Teutoburg Forest have been seen as a pivotal event resulting in the end of Roman expansion into northern Europe.
This theory became prevalent in the 19th century, and formed an integral part of the mythology of German nationalism. More recently some scholars questioned this interpretation, advancing a number of reasons why the Rhine was a practical boundary for the Roman Empire, and more suitable than any other river in Germania.
Armies on the Elbe , on the other hand, would have to have been supplied either by extensive overland routes or ships travelling the hazardous Atlantic seas.
Economically, the Rhine was already supporting towns and sizeable villages at the time of the Gallic conquest.
Northern Germania was far less developed, possessed fewer villages, and had little food surplus and thus a far lesser capacity for tribute.
Thus the Rhine was both significantly more accessible from Rome and better suited to supply sizeable garrisons than the regions beyond.
There were also practical reasons to fall back from the limits of Augustus' expansionism in this region. The Romans were mostly interested in conquering areas that had a high degree of self-sufficiency which could provide a tax base for them to extract from.
Most of Germania Magna did not have the higher level of urbanism at this time as in comparison with some Celtic Gallic settlements, which were in many ways already integrated into the Roman trade network in the case of southern Gaul.
The Teutoburg Forest myth is noteworthy in 19th century Germanic interpretations as to why the "march of the Roman Empire" was halted, but in reality Roman punitive campaigns into Germania continued even after that disaster, and they were intended less for conquest or expansion than they were to force the Germanic alliance into some kind of political structure that would be compliant with Roman diplomatic efforts.
Final plans to annex those territories were discarded by Commodus deeming the occupation of the region too expensive for the imperial treasury.
After Arminius was defeated and dead, having been murdered in 21 CE by opponents within his own tribe, Rome tried to control Germania beyond the Limes indirectly, by appointing client kings.
Italicus , a nephew of Arminius, was appointed king of the Cherusci, Vangio and Sido became vassal princes of the powerful Suebi , [66] [67] and the Quadian client king Vannius was imposed as a ruler of the Marcomanni.
Roman controlled territory was limited to the modern states of Austria , Baden-Württemberg , southern Bavaria , southern Hesse , Saarland and the Rhineland as Roman provinces of Noricum , [71] Raetia [72] and Germania.
The theories about the location of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest have emerged in large numbers especially since the beginning of the 16th century, when the Tacitus works Germania and Annales were rediscovered.
The assumptions about the possible place of the battle are based essentially on place names and river names, as well as on the description of the topography by the ancient writers, on investigations of the prehistoric road network, and on archaeological finds.
Only a few assumptions are scientifically based theories. The prehistorian and provincial archaeologist Harald Petrikovits combined the several hundred theories in into four units: [77].
For almost 2, years, the site of the battle was unidentified. The main clue to its location was an allusion to the saltus Teutoburgiensis in section i.
During the 19th century, theories as to the site abounded, and the followers of one theory successfully argued for a long wooded ridge called the Osning , near Bielefeld.
This was then renamed the Teutoburg Forest. He discovered coins from the reign of Augustus and none later , and some ovoid leaden Roman sling bolts.
Kalkriese is a village administratively part of the city of Bramsche , on the north slope fringes of the Wiehen , a ridge-like range of hills in Lower Saxony north of Osnabrück.
Initial systematic excavations were carried out by the archaeological team of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Osnabrück under the direction of Professor Wolfgang Schlüter from Once the dimensions of the project had become apparent, a foundation was created to organise future excavations and to build and operate a museum on the site, and to centralise publicity and documentation.
Since the excavations have been directed by Susanne Wilbers-Rost. A long zig-zagging wall of peat turves and packed sand had apparently been constructed beforehand: concentrations of battle debris in front of it and a dearth behind it testify to the Romans' inability to breach the Germans' strong defence.
Human remains appear to corroborate Tacitus' account of the Roman legionaries' later burial. As a result, Kalkriese is now perceived to be an event of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
The Varusschlacht Museum und Park Kalkriese includes a large outdoor area with trails leading to a re-creation of part of the earthen wall from the battle and other outdoor exhibits.
An observation tower, which holds most of the indoor exhibits, allows visitors to get an overview of the battle site. A second building includes the ticket centre, museum store and a restaurant.
The museum houses a large number of artefacts found at the site, including fragments of studded sandals legionaries lost, spearheads, and a Roman officer's ceremonial face-mask, which was originally silver-plated.
Although the majority of evidence has the battle taking place east and north of Osnabrück and the end at Kalkriese Hill, some scholars and others still adhere to older theories.
Moreover, there is controversy among Kalkriese adherents themselves as to the details. The German historians Peter Kehne and Reinhard Wolters believe that the battle was probably in the Detmold area, and that Kalkriese is the site of one of the battles in 15 CE.
This theory is, however, in contradiction to Tacitus' account. This would have involved a march along the northern edge of the Wiehen Hills, and the army would have passed through flat, open country, devoid of the dense forests and ravines described by Cassius Dio.
Historians such as Gustav-Adolf Lehmann and Boris Dreyer counter that Cassius Dio's description is too detailed and differentiated to be thus dismissed.
Die Hermannsschlacht. Finally, nearly all Germanic peoples, previously at odds with each other, gather behind him. The play did not find its audience until the s.
Since the First World War, it was considered to be a patriotic play, but after , it was only rarely performed anymore.
A call for German resistance against Napoleon? Or is Hermann much rather an alarming example of a man who will throw morals overboard and relinquish all humanity in the middle of a European war of brothers, only to satisfy his longing for freedom?
And what will he do with this freedom, once he has achieved it? Since , he has been working at the most renowned theatres in the German-language region and he is usually in charge of the sets for his productions as well.
In , he received the Nestroy Award as the best director.
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Er scheitert aber am Eigensinn und an der historischen Kurzsichtigkeit der Stammesfürsten und wird verdächtigt, nach einer autokratischen Herrschaft zu streben. Hermann ist dabei ein Grenzgänger, der im römischen Heer dient und dennoch die Stämme der Germanen hinter sich vereint, um das römische Joch abzuschütteln. Premiere am Im Grunde galt das Stück von Beginn an als unspielbar - bis auf eine kurze Unterbrechung während der Nazi-Herrschaft: Die Bühnenfigur namens Hermann wurde zum stramm-deutschen Nationalhelden stilisiert, der die totale Mobilmachung propagiert; Kleist "stählerne Poesie" so ein Diktum der Epoche avancierte zum meistgespielten Stück.
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Hermann , der Fürst der Cherusker, wird von zwei Seiten bedrängt. Der römische Feldherr Varus bedroht ihn mit drei Legionen aus dem Westen und bietet seine Hilfe gegen Marbod an, dem er aber insgeheim angeboten hat, mit ihm gegen Hermann vorzugehen.
Die bei Hermann versammelten germanischen Fürsten drängen ihn zum Krieg gegen die Römer, was er aber mit Hinweis auf die militärische Unterlegenheit der Germanen ablehnt.
Hermanns Frau Thusnelda wird von dem römischen Legaten Ventidius umworben, der heimlich eine Locke ihres blonden Haares abschneidet.
Gleichzeitig setzt dieser sich aber mit Marbod in Verbindung, den er über das doppelte Spiel von Varus informiert und dem er anbietet, gemeinsam gegen ihn in den Kampf zu ziehen.
Die Römer marschieren in das Land der Cherusker ein und verheeren es. Hermann nutzt das Verhalten der Römer, um den Hass im Volk gegen sie zu schüren.
In Teutoburg begegnet er Varus, der sich von ihm täuschen lässt. Marbod zögert zunächst, sich mit den Cheruskern zu verbünden, wird aber zum einen durch die Flucht seiner römischen Berater überzeugt, zum anderen legt Hermann zum Beweis seiner Treue das Leben seiner beiden Söhne in die Hände des Suebenfürsten.
Die Römer irren durch den Teutoburger Wald und werden von ihren germanischen Verbündeten verlassen. Marbod is reluctant to ally with the Cherusci, but is convinced firstly by the escape of his Roman advisors, and secondly because, as proof of his loyalty, Hermann put the lives of Marbod's two sons into the hands of Suevenfürsten.
The rape of a girl gives Germanic Hermann an occasion to call the people to revolt against the Romans. He shows Thusnelda a letter from Ventidius, in which he promises the Empress Livia a lock of Thusnelda's blond hair.
The Romans wander through the Teutoburg Forest and are abandoned by their Germanic allies. Thusnelda gets revenge on Ventidius by luring him into the enclosure of a bear that then kills him.
In the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the Roman legions of Varus are defeated and their commander killed. The play Hermannsschlacht premiered finally in , in an edited version of Feodor Wehl in Breslau modern day Wroclaw , but without much success.
Other performances of this version of the text in Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Graz in , and festival performances the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig in in Karlsruhe and Kassel were also unsuccessful.
Only with the productions of the Berlin Schauspielhaus and the Meiningen Court Theatre in , did the piece gain popularity with the audience.
The Meininger staging was by recourse to the original Kleist, playing a convincing ensemble, and the crowd scenes stylistically impressive.
Altogether there were performances in 16 German-speaking stages, with the last toured in to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Odessa. Meiningen staged 36 performances.
Last with the Berlin performance in , for the centennial anniversary of the liberation wars, attended the premiere of the imperial family, which was Hermann battle as a patriotic drama.
Therefore, the piece after was only rarely performed, only the Harz mountain valley theater in the GDR , there were with a production of political bias against the United States and its Western allies.
Meanwhile, Germanicus' troops had built a fort on Mount Taunus from where he marched with about 30,—35, men against the Chatti.
Many of the men fled across a river and dispersed themselves in the forests. Germanicus next marched on Mattium caput gentis and burned it to the ground.
According to Tacitus , they found heaps of bleached bones and severed skulls nailed to trees, which they buried, " At a location Tacitus calls the pontes longi "long causeways" , in boggy lowlands somewhere near the Ems, Arminius' troops attacked the Romans.
Arminius initially caught Germanicus' cavalry in a trap, inflicting minor casualties, but the Roman infantry reinforced the rout and checked them.
The fighting lasted for two days, with neither side achieving a decisive victory. Germanicus' forces withdrew and returned to the Rhine.
He forced a crossing of the Weser near modern Minden , suffering some losses to a Germanic skirmishing force, and forced Arminius' army to stand in open battle at Idistaviso in the Battle of the Weser River.
Germanicus' legions inflicted huge casualties on the Germanic armies while sustaining only minor losses. A final battle was fought at the Angrivarian Wall west of modern Hanover , repeating the pattern of high Germanic fatalities, which forced them to flee beyond the Elbe.
With his main objectives reached and winter approaching, Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet incurring some damage from a storm in the North Sea.
Germanicus was recalled to Rome and informed by Tiberius that he would be given a triumph and reassigned to a new command. Germanicus' campaign had been taken to avenge the Teutoburg slaughter and also partially in reaction to indications of mutinous intent amongst his troops.
Arminius, who had been considered a very real threat to stability by Rome, was now defeated. Once his Germanic coalition had been broken and honour avenged, the huge cost and risk of keeping the Roman army operating beyond the Rhine was not worth any likely benefit to be gained.
The third legionary standard was recovered in 41 CE by Publius Gabinius from the Chauci during the reign of Claudius , brother of Germanicus.
The last chapter was recounted by the historian Tacitus. Around 50 CE, bands of Chatti invaded Roman territory in Germania Superior , possibly an area in Hesse east of the Rhine that the Romans appear to have still held, and began to plunder.
The Roman commander, Publius Pomponius Secundus , and a legionary force supported by Roman cavalry recruited auxiliaries from the Vangiones and Nemetes.
They attacked the Chatti from both sides and defeated them, and joyfully found and liberated Roman prisoners, including some from Varus' legions who had been held for 40 years.
From the time of the rediscovery of Roman sources in the 15th century the Battles of the Teutoburg Forest have been seen as a pivotal event resulting in the end of Roman expansion into northern Europe.
This theory became prevalent in the 19th century, and formed an integral part of the mythology of German nationalism.
More recently some scholars questioned this interpretation, advancing a number of reasons why the Rhine was a practical boundary for the Roman Empire, and more suitable than any other river in Germania.
Armies on the Elbe , on the other hand, would have to have been supplied either by extensive overland routes or ships travelling the hazardous Atlantic seas.
Economically, the Rhine was already supporting towns and sizeable villages at the time of the Gallic conquest. Northern Germania was far less developed, possessed fewer villages, and had little food surplus and thus a far lesser capacity for tribute.
Thus the Rhine was both significantly more accessible from Rome and better suited to supply sizeable garrisons than the regions beyond.
There were also practical reasons to fall back from the limits of Augustus' expansionism in this region. The Romans were mostly interested in conquering areas that had a high degree of self-sufficiency which could provide a tax base for them to extract from.
Most of Germania Magna did not have the higher level of urbanism at this time as in comparison with some Celtic Gallic settlements, which were in many ways already integrated into the Roman trade network in the case of southern Gaul.
The Teutoburg Forest myth is noteworthy in 19th century Germanic interpretations as to why the "march of the Roman Empire" was halted, but in reality Roman punitive campaigns into Germania continued even after that disaster, and they were intended less for conquest or expansion than they were to force the Germanic alliance into some kind of political structure that would be compliant with Roman diplomatic efforts.
Final plans to annex those territories were discarded by Commodus deeming the occupation of the region too expensive for the imperial treasury.
After Arminius was defeated and dead, having been murdered in 21 CE by opponents within his own tribe, Rome tried to control Germania beyond the Limes indirectly, by appointing client kings.
Italicus , a nephew of Arminius, was appointed king of the Cherusci, Vangio and Sido became vassal princes of the powerful Suebi , [66] [67] and the Quadian client king Vannius was imposed as a ruler of the Marcomanni.
Roman controlled territory was limited to the modern states of Austria , Baden-Württemberg , southern Bavaria , southern Hesse , Saarland and the Rhineland as Roman provinces of Noricum , [71] Raetia [72] and Germania.
The theories about the location of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest have emerged in large numbers especially since the beginning of the 16th century, when the Tacitus works Germania and Annales were rediscovered.
The assumptions about the possible place of the battle are based essentially on place names and river names, as well as on the description of the topography by the ancient writers, on investigations of the prehistoric road network, and on archaeological finds.
Only a few assumptions are scientifically based theories. The prehistorian and provincial archaeologist Harald Petrikovits combined the several hundred theories in into four units: [77].
For almost 2, years, the site of the battle was unidentified. The main clue to its location was an allusion to the saltus Teutoburgiensis in section i.
During the 19th century, theories as to the site abounded, and the followers of one theory successfully argued for a long wooded ridge called the Osning , near Bielefeld.
This was then renamed the Teutoburg Forest. He discovered coins from the reign of Augustus and none later , and some ovoid leaden Roman sling bolts.
Kalkriese is a village administratively part of the city of Bramsche , on the north slope fringes of the Wiehen , a ridge-like range of hills in Lower Saxony north of Osnabrück.
Initial systematic excavations were carried out by the archaeological team of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Osnabrück under the direction of Professor Wolfgang Schlüter from Once the dimensions of the project had become apparent, a foundation was created to organise future excavations and to build and operate a museum on the site, and to centralise publicity and documentation.
Since the excavations have been directed by Susanne Wilbers-Rost. A long zig-zagging wall of peat turves and packed sand had apparently been constructed beforehand: concentrations of battle debris in front of it and a dearth behind it testify to the Romans' inability to breach the Germans' strong defence.
Human remains appear to corroborate Tacitus' account of the Roman legionaries' later burial. As a result, Kalkriese is now perceived to be an event of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
The Varusschlacht Museum und Park Kalkriese includes a large outdoor area with trails leading to a re-creation of part of the earthen wall from the battle and other outdoor exhibits.
An observation tower, which holds most of the indoor exhibits, allows visitors to get an overview of the battle site. A second building includes the ticket centre, museum store and a restaurant.
The museum houses a large number of artefacts found at the site, including fragments of studded sandals legionaries lost, spearheads, and a Roman officer's ceremonial face-mask, which was originally silver-plated.
Although the majority of evidence has the battle taking place east and north of Osnabrück and the end at Kalkriese Hill, some scholars and others still adhere to older theories.
Moreover, there is controversy among Kalkriese adherents themselves as to the details. The German historians Peter Kehne and Reinhard Wolters believe that the battle was probably in the Detmold area, and that Kalkriese is the site of one of the battles in 15 CE.
This theory is, however, in contradiction to Tacitus' account. This would have involved a march along the northern edge of the Wiehen Hills, and the army would have passed through flat, open country, devoid of the dense forests and ravines described by Cassius Dio.
Historians such as Gustav-Adolf Lehmann and Boris Dreyer counter that Cassius Dio's description is too detailed and differentiated to be thus dismissed.
Tony Clunn see below , the discoverer of the battlefield, and a "southern-approach" proponent, believes that the battered Roman army regrouped north of Ostercappeln , where Varus committed suicide, and that the remnants were finally overcome at the Kalkriese Gap.
Based on a reinterpretation of the writings of Tacitus, Paterculus, and Florus and a new analysis of those of Cassius Dio, he proposes that an ambush took place in Varus's summer camp during a peaceful meeting between the Roman commanders and the Germans.
The legacy of the Germanic victory was resurrected with the recovery of the histories of Tacitus in the 15th century, when the figure of Arminius, now known as "Hermann" a mistranslation of the name "Armin" which has often been incorrectly attributed to Martin Luther , became a nationalistic symbol of Pan-Germanism.
From then, Teutoburg Forest has been seen as a pivotal clash that ended Roman expansion into northern Europe.
This notion became especially prevalent in the 19th century, when it formed an integral part of the mythology of German nationalism.
In the German Heinrich von Kleist 's play Die Hermannsschlacht aroused anti- Napoleonic sentiment, even though it could not be performed under occupation.
In , Josef Viktor von Scheffel wrote a lengthy song, "Als die Römer frech geworden" "When the Romans got cheeky" , relating the tale of the battle with somewhat gloating humour.
Copies of the text are found on many souvenirs available at the Detmold monument. The battle had a profound effect on 19th century German nationalism along with the histories of Tacitus ; the Germans, at that time still divided into many states , identified with the Germanic peoples as shared ancestors of one "German people" and came to associate the imperialistic Napoleonic French and Austro-Hungarian forces with the invading Romans, destined for defeat.
As a symbol of unified Romantic nationalism , the Hermannsdenkmal , a monument to Hermann surmounted by a statue, was erected in a forested area near Detmold , believed at that time to be the site of the battle.
Paid for largely out of private funds, the monument remained unfinished for decades and was not completed until , after the Franco-Prussian War of —71 unified the country.
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