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Historical person
c. 1st century–106
Decebalus was king of Dacia and the main opponent of Rome during Trajan’s Dacian Wars. His resistance and eventual defeat led to the Roman conquest of Dacia and the creation of a new imperial province north of the Danube.
In Adrian Goldsworthy’s The Fort, Flavius Ferox is sent beyond the Danube to command an isolated fort during the uneasy peace between Trajan’s Rome and King Decebalus.
Series
Rider of Rome reimagines the career of Tiberius Claudius Maximus, the Roman cavalryman whose tombstone records service in the Dacian Wars and the pursuit of King Decebalus. The series places an auxiliary soldier at the centre of Trajan’s campaigns rather than viewing conquest solely through emperors and legionary…
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City of Victory continues the story of Flavius Ferox after the Vindolanda novels, moving him from the northern frontier of Britain to Trajan’s Dacian and eastern campaigns before bringing him back to Hadrian’s Wall. The sequence follows frontier command, imperial politics, sieges and the dangerous patronage of Hadrian…
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