Germanicus: from the Rhine to Antioch

From the mutiny of the legions on the Rhine in AD 14 to his death in Antioch in AD 19 and the return of his ashes to Rome.

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AD fourteen. Germanicus commands the legions on the Rhine.

The legions want him as emperor. He refuses.

For three years he wages war deep in Germania.

He finds the site of the Varian disaster and buries the dead.

AD seventeen: triumph in Rome.

Then Tiberius sends him to the East, to Syria and Egypt.

In AD nineteen he dies in Antioch.

He was thirty-three and suspected poison.

Agrippina carries his ashes to Brundisium and to Rome.

A crowd waits at the port, and Rome cries: give us back Germanicus.