Ζαποτέκος έγραψε: ↑17 Μάιος 2021, 15:42
Ένατη (IX) λεγεώνα….η μυστηριώδης εξαφάνιση
https://chilonas.com/2021/05/10/https-wp-me-p1op6y-fat/Την περίοδο μεταξύ 108 μ.Χ. και 160 μ.Χ., μία από τις πλέον έμπειρες λεγεώνες εξαφανίστηκε από τη δύναμη του Ρωμαϊκού στρατού. Τελευταία φορά καταγράφηκε να δραστηριοποιείται στη Βρετανία, αλλά έκτοτε δεν υπάρχει κανένα στοιχείο για την ΙΧ ή VIIII Ισπανική Λεγεώνα και η μοίρα των 5.500 ανδρών της αποτελεί ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα μυστήρια όλων των εποχών.
Previously attested in Britain, Legio IX Hispana has disappeared from the list of legions by 165 AD. Much of what we hear about it is speculation. Since the legion had been posted in Britain, one notion is that it was wiped out by the Picts. We even see this in a recent movie, The Eagle [2011]. There is no evidence from the period, however, that any legion was wiped out in Britain. Equally speculative is the suggestion that Legio IX Hispana was among the units sent to suppress the Bar Kochba revolt and that it was wiped out there. Again, there is no evidence for either event. Instead, since the legion does disappear from the records and is never revived, which means that something bad must have happened to it, we might ask if there is any evidence that any legion was wiped out or disbanded during the period before 165 AD.
Well, yes. In 161, the Parthians occupied Armenia and defeated the governor of Cappadocia, Aelius (or Marcus Sedatius) Severianus, at Elegeia on the Euphrates,
wiping out his legion. Severianus, who had been assured of victory by a shady "prophet," Alexander of Abonutichus, committed suicide. The Parthians then defeated the governor of Syria, Attidius Cornelianus. This set off a Parthian War (161-166), for which the Emperor Lucius Verus was present in the East, even though the campaign was prosecuted by other generals, resulting in the sack and burning of Ctesiphon in 166. The identity of the legion of Aelius Severianus is not specified in the sources; but if we know that a legion was destroyed, and we know that Legio IX Hispana disappears from the record, when that only happens if a legion is wiped out in battle or disbanded because of rebellion, the inference seems reasonable that this was the legion. What other legion would have been wiped out at Elegeia? So speculation about the Picts or Bar Kochba seems superfluous.