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Historical person
30–83
Quintus Petillius Cerialis was a Roman general active in Britain and on the Rhine during the first century AD. He fought against Boudica’s revolt and later helped suppress the Batavian rebellion before serving as governor of Britain.
In Simon Turney’s Agricola: Commander, Agricola attempts to restore discipline and combine negotiation with controlled military force, but the arrival of Governor Quintus Petillius Cerialis shifts policy towards a major war. Griff Hosker’s The Sword of Cartimandua places Quintus Petillius Cerialis within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and crime, espionage and covert power. Other novels featuring Quintus Petillius Cerialis include Griff Hosker’s Druid’s Gold, Griff Hosker’s Hero of Rome, Griff Hosker’s Invasion- Caledonia, Griff Hosker’s Revolt of the Red Witch, and Griff Hosker’s Roman Courage.
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 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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