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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.
In Simon Turney’s Agricola: Invader, the young Gnaeus Julius Agricola begins his military career as a tribune on the dangerous edge of the empire. In Amanda Cockrell’s Shadow of the Eagle, his mixed inheritance makes service under Governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola more complicated than the training ground admits: Rome offers rank and belonging, while the people being conquered include communities to which his mother’s life and memory still bind him. Other novels featuring Gnaeus Julius Agricola include Douglas Jackson’s Glory of Rome, Simon Turney’s Agricola: Commander, Simon Turney’s Agricola: Warrior, Simon Turney’s Agricola: Conqueror, and Tim Hodkinson’s The Spear of Crom.
Series
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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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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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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