As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate disclosure.
Historical person
30–83
Quintus Petillius Cerialis was a Roman general active in Britain and on the Rhine during the first century AD. Quintus Petillius Cerialis served as ancient Roman senator and legatus Augusti pro praetore Britanniae.
He fought against Boudica’s revolt and later helped suppress the Batavian rebellion before serving as governor of Britain. Quintus Petillius Cerialis also held the offices or ranks of legatus Augusti pro praetore Britanniae and Roman consul.
In Simon Turney’s Agricola: Commander, the arrival of Governor Quintus Petillius Cerialis brings a more aggressive campaign and places the legion at the centre of Flavian consolidation. Command now requires Agricola to protect his men, satisfy the new regime and confront the human consequences of renewed conquest. Quintus Petillius Cerialis is treated fictionally in Griff Hosker’s Druid’s Gold, Griff Hosker’s Invasion- Caledonia, Griff Hosker’s Revolt of the Red Witch, Griff Hosker’s Roman Courage, Griff Hosker’s Roman Hawk, and Griff Hosker’s Roman Treachery.
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,…
All books in this series
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…
All books in this series
