Germanicus: The Roman General Who Restored Honor To The Empire

I made a dumb speaking error at 4:55 when I said 12,000 "legions" instead of "legionaries." I somehow missed it during editing and I hate the fact that I cannot fix it. Sorry for the mistake.

I think an appropriate title for this video is: “The Empire Strikes Back: Germanicus’s Glory”

At first, I was like, “good dude, good story!” .....then “father of Caligula, grandfather of Nero”.....well, damn

Can’t wait for him to show up in season 2 of Barbarians

I knew germanicus was a hero but according to what he accomplished this guy was a living legend.

What a joy at 58 years of age to hear an amazing story of Roman history I haven't read, or listened to before. Well done!

Germanicus was the most "Caesar" Of all Caesars heirs

Germanicus making Rome great again. Too bad he got assassinated, had he lived long enough to become Emperor, he would have built his wall before Hadrian, and then made Arminius and his barbarian tribes pay for it.

Drusus and Germanicus are like the cool older brothers that Tiberius and Claudius are always left in their shadow

Germanicus was a hell of a leader!! I love history. Thanks for the video!

Had Germanicus lived to reign, it is unlikely Claudius or Caligula or Nero would have ruled. His sons Nero and Drusus would have reigned after him and the world would be a different place. Enthralled by his story and love the Getty image before his first shave, apparently at 18 or 19 just before he married Agrippina. Hats off for making this!

The greatest emperor Rome never had

The missing emperor. Germanicus, hero of Rome.

It is interesting to reflect that Germanicus had all the qualities to make a superb Roman Emperor but for his untimely death. His family was treated very poorly by Tiberius but one of his sons, Caligula, "little boots" as his father's soldiers called him, followed after Tiberius as Emperor with high hopes that he would be just like his dad. Caligula quickly turned into a full blown monster, as terrible as any Emperor, before he was assassinated after 4 of so years.

Another epic story of the SPQR. Thanks, again, for these videos!!!

”SERVANT OF THE REPUBLIC”

The virgin Arminius vs. The chad Germanicus

"Rome was in her six hundred and fortieth year when the alarm of the Cimbrian arms was first heard, in the consulship of Caecilius Metellus and Papirius Carbo. Reckoning from that year to the second consulship of the emperor Trajan, we get a total of about two hundred and ten years. Such is the time it is taking to conquer Germany. In this long period much punishment has been given and taken. Neither by the Samnites nor by the Carthaginians, not by Spain or Gaul, or even by the Parthians, have we had more lessons taught us. The freedom of Germany is capable of more energetic action than the Arsacid despotism. After all, what has the East to taunt us with, except the slaughter of Crassus? And it soon lost its own prince Pacorus and was humbled at the feet of Ventidius. But the Germans routed or captured Carbo, Cassius, Aurelius Scaurus, Servilius Cacpio, and Mallius Maximus, and robbed the Republic, almost at one stroke, of five consular armies. Even from Augustus they took Varus and his three legions. And we had to pay a high price for the defeats inflicted upon them by Gaius Marius in Italy, by Julius Caesar in Gaul, and by Drusus, Tiberius, and Germanicus in their own country. The boastful threats of Gaius Caesar ended in farce. After that came a lull, until the Germans took advantage of our dissensions and civil wars to storm the quarters of the legions and make a bid for possession of Gaul. This attempt ended in another defeat for them; but the more recent 'victories' claimed by our commanders have been little more than excuses for celebrating triumphs." TACITUS Germania

Tiberius should have let Germanicus finish the job. It ended up costing Rome immensely in dealing with the forest savages for the next few centuries.

The Good Emperor that never was. One of the great what ifs of history.