When most people think of the Roman Empire, they see "an image of the Roman legion, the imperial eagle and that sort of military aspect — along with gladiators, which has a long association with ...
In 1954, the children’s novel ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’ popularised the legend of the disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia. Recent research has shown the Ninth was not ...
One arrives to the exhibition Legion: life in the Roman Army, which opened this month ... marching sandals and the soaring shadows of the eagle, the primary and most revered standard of the ...