Modern Popular Culture
Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius includes a description of Arminius's campaigns, where he is called "Hermann".
In 1945 by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, an alternate history novel describing a world in which Nazi Germany did not declare war on the United States in December, 1941, Operation Arminius is the code name for the German plan for the invasion of the United States.
Harry Turtledove's 2009 historical novel Give Me Back My Legions! is a fictional retelling of Arminius' story, from the points-of-view of Arminius himself, various Germans, and Varus and the Romans.
Irish Black metal band Primordial recently referred to Arminius in a song off their To The Nameless Dead album named "Heathen Tribes" with the line "Arminius stood tall in Teutoborg" in relation to the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
German heavy metal band Rebellion will release conceptual album about Arminius called Arminius - Furor Teutonicus.
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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