The Eagle of Rome A Lottie Lipton Adventure (The Lottie Lipton Adventures)

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The ancient Romans always associated the eagle with power and authority because of its association with the god Jupiter. The 2006 album Caledonia by German Celtic metal band Suidakra includes a song "The IXth Legion" about the legion's fight with the Picts.

In the second part, Marcus recovers in the company of his elderly uncle (Donald Sutherland), who buys the British slave Esca (Jamie Bell) for him after Marcus has saved his life in a gladiatorial arena. Considered physically unfit for further military service and goaded by casual insults to his father's reputation from complacent Roman politicians, Marcus resolves to devote himself to his true purpose – the discovery of what happened to the Ninth Legion up in Caledonia, the recovery of the Eagle and the clearing of the family name. Accompanied by Esca, who speaks Pictish or whatever the language is called, he heads up beyond Hadrian's Wall on his dangerous quest. At this point The Eagle inevitably invites comparison with two recent movies that touch on the same subject of lost Romans in the gloaming on the barbarous banks of Clyde: the disastrous The Lost Legion and the passable Centurion. In every respect – the language, the characterisation, the staging of the action sequences and the historical resonance – The Eagle is superior. According to legend, Gaius Marius discovered an eagle nest as a child that contained seven eggs. This was unusual, as eagles typically only lay two or three eggs. In the lore of the SCP Foundation web series, the 9th Legion is revealed to have been destroyed by SCP-682 during experiments using the anomaly SCP-978. However, more recent archaeologists have suggested that the piece may have been intended as nothing more than scrap metal by the Romans at the time that it was lost, and was awaiting being recycled when the aerarium burnt down. [5] The curve of the feet suggests that the eagle's talons had grasped a globe that was probably held in the hand of a statue, possibly of Jupiter.Here is where the film becomes a character piece as two men from different walks of life, enemies with anger and determination gnawing away at their souls, traverse the magnificent Scottish Highlands (Dod Mantle's photography is breath taking at times) to solve the mystery of The Ninth. What follows is an invigorating olde world adventure where mistrust, redemption and unknown tribes reside. Dialogue stays sharp and Macdonald never lest the pace sag. There's a pleasant adherence to period flavourings, with the Romans and their foes given an intelligent make over by the writer, while it's really refreshing to find there isn't a token female love interest jimmied into the story. BC – the defeat of Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae by the Parthians. Several Legions (returned in 20 BC).

The Silchester Eagle was a significant inspiration of Rosemary Sutcliff's popular children’s books The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch.

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a b c d Keppie, Lawrence. "The fate of the Ninth Legion: A problem for the Eastern Provinces?". Legions and Veterans: Roman Army papers 1971–2000. pp.247 ff. Yates, James, "Signa Militaria" in Smith, William, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875, pp. 1044–1046 ( http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Signa_Militaria.html) In 120 AD, The Roman Ninth Legion marched into Caledonia, they, along with their precious Golden Eagle standard, were never seen again. 20 years later and Marcus Flavius Aquila (Tatum) arrives in Britain to serve as a garrison commander. He carries a burden, though, for the Ninth Legion was led by his father. It is perhaps his destiny that he go forth into Caledonia to maybe solve the mystery and restore honour to the family name? There are some good battle scenes early on, and I though the earthen walls of the roman fortress to be passably accurate, and I liked the way the film made use of the famed roman "turtle" formation, which took good advantage of their tall shields. In 89 BC, during a war between the Romans and many of their allied-Italian states, a Roman army besieged the Italian stronghold of Asculum in southern Italy. According to our sources, the siege was long and the fighting fierce. And archaeological surveys have made fascinating discoveries.