Publius Quinctilius Varus: The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster

This unique full—length English biography of Varus reassesses how he has been held responsible for one of the most infamous and humiliating defeats in Roman history.

Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats in Roman history. Yet this is the first full length biography of the man. Dr Joanne Ball revisits the ancient sources alongside the most recent archaeological evidence from the...