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Marcus Aurelius and the Germanic Captives
While we’ve explored Marcus Aurelius’s Stoic philosophy and his brutal Marcomannic Wars, we haven’t looked at the human cost of victory. This episode examines the fate of the thousands of Germanic prisoners taken after the conquest of the Quadi and Marcomanni in 175 AD. We follow these captives from the battlefields of Pannonia to their new lives as slaves, laborers, and gladiators in Rome. Lucas and Luna discuss how Marcus handled the political sensitivity of displaying defeated barbarians in the capital, the specific roles these individuals played in Roman society, and the surprising…
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