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Historical person
40–93
Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman general and governor of Britain in the late first century AD. His campaigns pushed Roman power deep into northern Britain, and his life is known largely through the biography written by his son-in-law Tacitus.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola also held the offices or ranks of tribune of the plebs, legatus Augusti pro praetore Britanniae, praetor, and quaestor. Gnaeus Julius Agricola was born in Forum Iulii and died in Rome.
Simon Turney’s Agricola sequence follows the governor from apprenticeship to command. Agricola: Invader places the young tribune under Suetonius Paulinus during Boudica’s revolt; Agricola: Warrior carries him through Nero’s fall and the Year of the Four Emperors, where political judgement becomes as important as military skill. In Agricola: Commander he returns to Britain to restore discipline in the Twentieth Legion, and Agricola: Conqueror gives him provincial command and the northern campaigns culminating around Mons Graupius. John Broughton’s Caledonia shifts the viewpoint towards the peoples resisting Rome, so Agricola’s advance becomes the external pressure forcing successive northern leaders to decide whether to fight, negotiate or adapt to an empire determined to extend its frontier.
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The Agricola series follows Gnaeus Julius Agricola from an ambitious young military tribune to the governor who carried Roman campaigning into northern Britain. His career unfolds through the Boudican Revolt, Nero’s final years, the civil wars of AD 69 and the consolidation of Flavian rule. Alongside battlefield command,…
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The Gaius Valerius Verrens series follows a Roman officer whose career begins during the Boudican Revolt and carries him through the violent final years of Nero’s reign, the Year of the Four Emperors and the consolidation of Flavian rule. Valerius moves between Britain, Rome, the eastern frontier, Judaea…
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The Sword of Cartimandua is a Roman Britain sequence following auxiliary cavalry and frontier soldiers from the age of Cartimandua through the Flavian and early Hadrianic period. The books use Brigantian politics, Roman conquest, northern campaigning, Caledonia and Hadrian’s Wall to show Britain as a frontier province where…
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The Borderlands trilogy follows Faustus Valerianus, the son of a Roman veteran and a British woman enslaved during Claudius’s conquest. Beginning with Agricola’s northern campaigns, Faustus attempts to build a Roman military identity while the communities being subdued include his mother’s people. His attachment to Constantia, responsibility for…
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Rome Unbound follows the Roman centurion Quintus Liberius Verus on the edge of imperial Britain after the Claudian conquest. The sequence moves from the tense aftermath of native revolt to the Flavian advance into northern Britain, then follows Verus after disgrace into slavery, gladiatorial violence and the attempt…
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