Legio VI Herculia - Introduction

The Tenth Cohort of the Sixth Legion Herculia (LVIHRCX) is a project of living history and popularization of science, primarily archaeology and history, launched in 2020 in cooperation with the Institute of Archeology and Guardians of Zagreb. The short film will show members of the Tenth Cohort of the Sixth Legion Herculia founded in the end of the 3rd century, in Croatian historical area, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. The seat of the prefect of the Sixth legion was in Teutoburgium, today’s Dalj in Croatia. The Sixth legion is mentioned in the historical document Notitia Dignitatum and is attested by the legion’s seals on bricks and tiles most probably made in Dalj. It is this legion dedicated to Hercules together with the Fifth legion Iovia dedicated to Jupiter that was levied by Emperor Diocletian himself, one of the most important Roman emperors of late antiquity. Roles: Narrator – Filip Budić Firminus – Pavle Pelikan Katel – Nikola Vidaković Liberius