Sometime around the middle of the First Century AD, the Ninth Legion of the Roman army completely disappears from all records. In the oldest story I've yet covered on the podcast, I'll take a look at the known history of the Ninth Legion, as well as the theories on what happened to it.
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SOURCES
Cassius Dio. Roman History. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html
Mantel, Hugo. “The Causes of the Bar Kokba Revolt.” The Jewish Quarterly Review 58:3 (January 1968).
Tacitus. Agricola. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/tacitus-agricola.asp
̶. Annals. http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html
Thornbury, Walter. Old and New London (vol. 2). London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_IX_Hispana
https://www.livius.org/articles/legion/legio-viiii-hispana/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcomannic_Wars
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