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16 gru 2021 · What happened to Britain’s lost Roman legion? In 2011, blockbuster film The Eagle brought one of the great mysteries of Roman Britain to UK cinema screens. Here Miles Russell asks, what really befell the Legion of the Ninth?
26 mar 2011 · Set two decades after the unexplained disappearance of the Legion, the film tells the story of a young centurion called Marcus Flavius Aquila who arrives from Rome to solve the puzzle and...
16 mar 2011 · The disappearance of Rome's Ninth Legion has long baffled historians, but could a brutal ambush have been the event that forged the England-Scotland border, asks archaeologist Dr Miles Russell,...
13 wrz 2023 · It's been debated by scholars worldwide as to what happened to the legion. Originally, theorist Theodor Mommsen concluded that they had been wiped out in Northern Britain around 108 AD, but this was then disputed when inscriptions of IX Hispana were found at a legionary site in the Netherlands.
Adapted by Jeremy Brock from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), the film tells the story of a young Roman officer attempting to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in Caledonia.
The legion disappears from surviving Roman records after c. AD 120 and there is no extant account of what happened to it. [4] The unknown fate of the legion has been the subject of considerable research and speculation.
The Eagle: Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Channing Tatum, István Göz, Bence Gerö, Denis O'Hare. In Roman-ruled Britain, a young Roman soldier endeavors to honor his father's memory by finding his lost legion's golden emblem.
