PUBLIUS QUINCTILIUS VARUS: The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster

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. Ball questions the extent of Varus' culpability and asks whether he was scapegoated by Roman historians to deflect blame away from the Emperor. Photos.