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Historical person
born c. 1st century BCE
Amanirenas was a kandake, or queen, of the Kingdom of Kush who resisted Roman expansion into Nubia in the late first century BC. Her campaigns against Roman Egypt made her an important figure in the history of African resistance to imperial power.
In Simon Turney’s Bellatrix, Legio XXII advances south as Kushite forces under the warrior queen Amanirenas resist Roman control of Egypt and its frontier. Simon Turney’s The Capsarius places Amanirenas within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and crime, espionage and covert power.
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The Legion XXII series follows Titus Cervianus, a civilian surgeon transformed into a capsarius and soldier with Legio XXII Deiotariana in Roman Egypt. His medical skill gives the campaigns a distinctive viewpoint, moving between the wounded body, the tensions inside the legion and the strategic demands of Augustus’s…
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