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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...
15 paź 2018 · Under the command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Ninth marched into modern-day Scotland and helped consolidate Roman rule as far as the river Forth. Although Agricola’s campaign in Scotland achieved success, the Ninth Legion’s experience was far from pleasant.
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.
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.
Naturally, Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth became another of my favourite books, based as it was on the premise of an accursed legion sent north from Eburacum to quell the rebellious Caledonians, at whose hands it finally suffered annihilation, shrunken by desertion and disgraced by mutiny.
What do we know about their last movements? According to inscriptions discovered in York, it is known that the Ninth Legion returned to and remained stationed at the Roman Fort, known as Eboracum until at least AD 108. However, all traces of the Ninth Legion in Britain vanish after this point.
1 lut 2021 · One of the great mysteries of history has re-emerged this week: the fate of the Roman Ninth Legion (Legio IX Hispana), which seemingly disappeared around AD 108, never to be seen or heard of again.
