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Month: February 2011
So what happened to Legio VIIII Hispana | The Ninth Legion of The Eagle of the Ninth fame
The last recorded, datable activity of this (9th) legion in Britain was in 108/109, when it built a stone fortress at York. What happened next, is unclear. Several scholars have argued that it was defeated and annihilated by the Picts, maybe in 117/118, and that this caused the emperor Hadrian to build the famous wall in northern England. (This is the assumption of the famous novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth, 1954.) Read More »
The Eagle is ‘unfashionably exciting adaptation’, a ‘rip-snortin’ ‘real winner’ with ‘unusually strong sense of place …’ (US Reviews)
“You’ll gladly enslave yourself to Kevin Macdonald’s rollicking sword-and-sandal epic” which is “a beautifully executed piece of pulp fiction”, says Time Out New York of The Eagle. It is, says The New York Magazine, an “unfashionably exciting adaptation“, and a “rip-snortin adventure tale” says influential Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times, Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff inspired and influenced | Author Ben Kane
Ben Kane, himself now an acclaimed author of Roman novels, has posted on his own website an homage to Rosemary Sutcliff which concludes:
I wasn’t made aware of quite how deep The Eagle of the Ninth had sent roots into my mind until, at the age of 31 and more than twenty years after I’d read the book, I first set my eyes on the incredible structure that is Hadrian’s Wall. Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff is unequaled in children’s historical fiction | Guardian books blog
The writing of Rosemary Sutcliff is loved by Imogen Russell Williams, director of Have Your Cake Theatre – a fringe theatre company. Her areas of ‘anorak expertise’ (according to the Guardian website) include ‘children’s books, classical tragedy and Golden Age crime fiction’. No wonder that for her:
… the nonpareil of children’s historical fiction remains Rosemary Sutcliff, whose books about Bronze Age Britain (Warrior Scarlet; Sun Horse, Moon Horse) and Roman Britain, particularly The Eagle of the Ninth and The Lantern Bearers, were intensely memorable to me as a child and part of the reason I eventually chose to study classics at university. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 