Название: Lost Legion Rediscovered: The Mystery of the Theban Legion
Автор: Donald O'Reilly
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 184884378X
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies. Eucherius identified these as a legion recruited for the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in Egypt, whom he claimed had been massacred nearly a century previously (near the modern village of St Maurice-en-Valais in southwestern Switzerland) for refusing to obey orders they considered immoral.