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15 paź 2018 · It was for the role they played during these campaigns that the Ninth acquired its permanent title, Legio IX Hispania. From then on, it appears the Ninth Legion was sent to the Roman frontier in Pannonia, where it remained for much of the primary half of the first century AD.
16 mar 2011 · The theory that 5,000 of Rome's finest soldiers were lost in the swirling mists of Caledonia, as they marched north to put down a rebellion, forms the basis of a new film, The Eagle, but how much...
The Eagle of the Ninth is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. The story is set in Roman Britain in the 2nd century AD, after the building of Hadrian's Wall.
25 maj 2024 · One popular theory, immortalized in Rosemary Sutcliff‘s 1954 novel "The Eagle of the Ninth," is that the legion was destroyed by Caledonian tribes in the north of Britain. This idea gained some support from the discovery of a legionary eagle buried in an underground chamber at Silchester in 1866.
16 gru 2021 · Journeying beyond Hadrian's Wall, Marcus learns the truth about how the Ninth was destroyed, and in doing so stumbles upon the legion's emblematic bronze eagle, now in enemy hands. His personal odyssey can end only with the rescue of the eagle and its safe return to Roman-held territory.
27 maj 2021 · The Silchester Eagle was a significant inspiration of Rosemary Sutcliff's popular children’s books The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch. The books focus on the mysterious disappearance of the Ninth Legion, Legio IX Hispana (the 9th Spanish Legion).
The absence of any record of the Ninth Legion after the late second century AD, combined with the lack of archaeological evidence of their continued presence, has led many historians to conclude that the legion disappeared.
