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Historical person
c. 2nd century BCE–43
Cunobeline was a powerful king in pre-Roman Britain, ruling the Catuvellauni and associated territories in the early first century AD. His coinage and political reach show the growth of strong native kingdoms shortly before the Claudian invasion.
In Simon Scarrow’s Warrior: The King in Rome, the exiled Caratacus tells a young Roman writer about his childhood as a son of Cunobeline after Boudica’s revolt has been defeated. In Michael Arnold’s The Savage Isle, the death of Cunobeline ends a political balance that had restrained direct Roman intervention. Other novels featuring Cunobeline include Simon Scarrow’s Warrior: The Druids’ Lair, Simon Scarrow’s Warrior: The War Prince, Simon Scarrow’s Warrior: Brothers of the Sword, Simon Scarrow’s Warrior: Lord of War, and Simon Scarrow’s Warlord of Britannia.
Series
The Warrior sequence tells the life of Caratacus from his youth as a prince of the Catuvellauni through Druid training, tribal conflict and resistance to the Roman invasion. The story is framed partly by his later exile in Rome, where the defeated British ruler looks back on the…
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The Savage Isle series begins in AD 42, as the death of Cunobeline fractures the political order of southern Britain and Emperor Claudius prepares a Roman invasion. Cullen, an orphan of the Atrebates captured by the Catuvellauni, grows from vulnerable outsider into a warrior whose fate is tied…
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