 First UK edition cover | |
| Author | Simon Scarrow |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Eagles of the Empire |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Headline (UK) |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-7553-0117-1 |
| Preceded by | The Eagle's Prey |
| Followed by | The Eagle in the Sand |
The Eagle's Prophecy is an historical novel by Simon Scarrow, published in 2006 and set in Ancient Rome. [1]
During the 1st century AD, a pirate squadron under the command of Telemachus captures a Roman ship carrying a high-ranking Roman dignitary and his personal cargo, a set of scrolls. Realising the nature of the scrolls, Telemachus takes the dignitary prisoner and fires the vessel.
Meanwhile, Centurions Cato and Macro are living in Rome, awaiting reassignment to the legions after being compelled to quit the army invading Britain. Narcissus, the Emperor's secretary and spymaster, recruits Cato and Macro for a dangerous assignment. Due to the suspicious conspiratorial nature of the events surrounding the death of their previous commander, Centurion Maximius, both their lives are forfeit should they refuse.
Narcissus reassigns them to the Roman Imperial Navy, stationing them at Ravenna. Telemachus and his pirates are growing bolder and the navy is tasked with destroying them. However, the operation is merely a cover for Narcissus' real objective: the recovery of the scrolls, the nature of which is classified. During Cato and Macro's trip to Ravenna, they rescue a Greek merchant, Anobarbus, being tortured by brigands in the hills.
Upon their arrival, it is revealed Narcissus has placed Tribune - now Prefect - Vitellius in command of the operation, souring relations with the two centurions. Furthermore, there is no love lost between Macro and the Imperial Marines; he reveals to Cato that his mother had run off with a marine twenty years before, abandoning him and his father, leaving him with a burning hatred for marines ever since. Macro and Cato strike up a friendship with Centurion Minicius, an aging auxiliary veteran who acquaints them with life at sea.
Cato typically refers to either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger, both of the Porcii Catones family of Rome.
Legio II Augusta was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that was founded during the late Roman republic. Its emblems were the Capricornus, Pegasus, and Mars. It may have taken the name "Augusta" from a victory or reorganization that occurred during the reign of Augustus.
The Eagle's Conquest is a 2001 novel by Simon Scarrow, about the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD. It is the second book in the Eagles of the Empire series.
In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion, was a commander, nominally of a century, a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries. The size of the century changed over time, and from the first century BC through most of the imperial era was reduced to 80 men.
The naval forces of the ancient Roman state were instrumental in the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean Basin, but it never enjoyed the prestige of the Roman legions. Throughout their history, the Romans remained a primarily land-based people and relied partially on their more nautically inclined subjects, such as the Greeks and the Egyptians, to build their ships. Because of that, the navy was never completely embraced by the Roman state, and deemed somewhat "un-Roman".
Simon Scarrow is a British writer. Scarrow completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer, firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form College, then at City College Norwich. Simon is a patron of the Bansang Hospital Appeal which supports an outstandingly innovative hospital in The Gambia.
Under the Eagle is the first book in the Eagles of the Empire series, by Simon Scarrow and is his debut novel, introducing the characters of Quintus Licinius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Macro. It was published in 2000.
When the Eagle Hunts is a 2002 novel by Simon Scarrow, set in 44 AD during the Roman invasion of Britain. It is the third book in the Eagles of the Empire series.
Eagles of the Empire is a series of historical military fiction novels written by Simon Scarrow. The series began in July 2000 with the publication of Under the Eagle, and as of March 2022 there have been 21 novels released in the series, with the 22nd novel due in November 2023.
Centurion is a historical fiction novel (ISBN 0755327764) written by Simon Scarrow, published by Headline Book Publishing in 2007. It is book 8 in the Eagles of the Empire series, continuing Macro and Cato's adventures in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire that began in The Eagle in the Sand.
The Eagle and The Wolves is a 2003 novel by Simon Scarrow, the fourth book in the Eagles of the Empire series where main characters Macro and Cato command two cohorts of soldiers made up of warriors and nobles from the Atrebatan kingdom. This book follows their adventures in 44 AD during the occupation of Britain by Rome and Caratacus's following rebellion.
The Eagle in the Sand is a novel written by Simon Scarrow, published by Headline Book Publishing in 2006. It is the seventh book in the Eagles of the Empire series, starting with Macro and Cato's transfer to the eastern provinces of Rome.
Centurion is a 2010 British historical action film written and directed by Neil Marshall, loosely based on the disappearance of the Roman Empire's Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the early second century AD. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Olga Kurylenko. It received mixed reviews and performed poorly at the box office, only earning half of its $12 million budget.
The Eagle's Prey is the fifth novel in the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. It was published by Headline Publishing Group in July 2004.
Praetorian (2011) is the eleventh book in the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow.
The Blood Crows, published in 2013, is the twelfth volume of the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. It features the return of his main characters, Macro and Cato to Brittania, after an absence of almost ten years.
Brothers in Blood is the thirteenth novel in the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. It was published in 2014 by Headline in the UK.
Britannia is the fourteenth novel in the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow. It was published in 2015 by Headline in the UK.
Invictus, published in 2016, is the fifteenth volume of the Eagles of the Empire series by Simon Scarrow.
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