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The Eagle of the Ninth
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A Rosemary Sutcliff historical novel published in 1954 about a young Roman soldier named Marcus Flavius Aquila who goes on a quest to find the eagle standard of his father.It is loosely based on the mystery of the real Roman Ninth Legion, which disappears from the historical record after having last been mentioned as present in Scotland in the early 2nd century. This book sets up later novels featuring descendents of the protagonist.The film The Eagle (2011) is based upon this novel, but the earlier (1977) BBC TV series (titled The Eagle of the Ninth) is a more faithful adaptation (perhaps because the 2011 film omits some characters and events for the sake of brevity). | |
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Conflicting Loyalty | |
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Conflicting Loyalty: Guern. He decides to aid Marcus and Esca to escape, but remains with his tribe and his family. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Uncle Aquila. | |
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_185e498d | type |
Chased by Angry Natives | |
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Chased by Angry Natives: They managed to subvert it once, but then Esca dropped the brooch. | |
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Order Versus Chaos | |
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Order Versus Chaos: Roman colonization of Britain. | |
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The Dandy | |
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The Dandy: Tribune Placidus. | |
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Abandoned Area | |
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Abandoned Area: The deserted Roman fort at Trimontium, abandoned when the Empire pulled back behind Hadrian's Wall. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Marcus and Esca. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Marcus's father. | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: Cottia after returning from holiday in Aquae Sulis/Bath. | |
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Beard of Barbarism | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_2e42a3e1 | comment |
Beard of Barbarism: To prepare for their foray beyond the wall, Esca grows a moustache, and Marcus grows a beard. Both men's facial hair grows out even more the longer they spend outside of "civilisation", and by the end are really glad to be rid of them. Guern also has a beard when he first appears, though he ditches it in favour of a moustache. | |
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Going Native | |
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Going Native: Guern. | |
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The Wall Around the World | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_3f28ec84 | comment |
The Wall Around the World: Hadrian's Wall is treated as such - as the boundary between Roman-occupied Britain and barbarian Scotland, it marks the start of Marcus' adventure and the place where civilisation ends from the Roman perspective. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Marcus has brought the eagle back, but the Ninth Legion cannot be restored. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Liathan and Tradui are this for Marcus. To some extent, Marcus is also this for Tradui, who sends Liathan to kill him but also to give him his father's ring, for "he is his father's son in more than blood". Fortunately, only the second of these errands is successfully carried out. | |
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_4655ec83 | type |
Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: Guern's shave when he returns from the hunt. As Marcus watches him, he notes just how similar and ritualised shaving is throughout the world, and realises that he and the Celts aren't so different after all. subverted when we find out that Guern was in fact a Roman legionary once. | |
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Girl Next Door | |
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Girl Next Door: Cottia again. | |
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Signature Item Clue | |
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Signature Item Clue: While staying with the people who took the titular eagle from his father's legion, Marcus removes the eagle during the night and hides it under the banks on the edge of a lake, for Esca to return in secret and retrieve days later, after the two of them have been followed and searched. Unfortunately, while doing so, Esca accidentally drops Marcus' distinctive ring-brooch, already "all but torn out" of Marcus' cloak through the roughness of the aforementioned search. When the natives find it days later, they give chase. | |
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Call to Agriculture | |
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Call to Agriculture: Marcus' ultimate dream throughout the book is to buy back his father's farm and live out the rest of his days there after a successful military career. After his adventures, developing a love for the British landscape, and realising he sees his ancestral farm through a Nostalgia Filter, he instead sets up a farm in Britain with Esca and Cottia. Their farm is still there three centuries later. | |
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White-and-Grey Morality | |
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White-and-Grey Morality: The antagonistic tribesmen are portrayed in a sympathetic light. | |
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All-Natural Snake Oil | |
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All-Natural Snake Oil: Tradui insists toad fat can cure eye infections, even after Marcus' salve actually cures the poor baby who's been receiving this treatment. | |
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Gladiator Games | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_693cabaf | comment |
Gladiator Games: Esca, for a while. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Marcus Flavius AQUILA. Aquila is Latin for "eagle." | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Marcus as Demetrius of Alexandria. Esca has to physically stop him from talking once he starts haranguing the soldiers at the Wall. | |
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Made a Slave | |
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Made a Slave: Esca, until he gets manumitted. | |
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Quit Your Whining | |
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Quit Your Whining: | |
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Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Tradui. He claims to be 100 years old, and to have been young at a time when the sun was hotter and the seals stronger. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: The Eagle standard. | |
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Fashion Dissonance | |
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Fashion Dissonance: Cottia's aunt Valaria is obsessed with appearing as Roman as possible, and she wears a fashionable outfit to the Gladiator Games to this end. Thing is, not only is her outfit far too light for the British climate, but, as Marcus notes, it has actually gone out of fashion a year ago. | |
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Blue Blood | |
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Blue Blood: Placidus, who has a bit of a case of Aristocrats Are Evil, and technically Marcus, too, who is said to be of the Equestrian class, a Roman knight. | |
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The Queen's Latin | |
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The Queen's Latin: In the 1977 BBC adaptation, all of the Romans have upper class English accents. Conversely, Esca, played by Christian Rodska, has a Northern English accent as his tribe, the Brigantes, were from what is now Northern England and the Epidii tribesmen of Caledonia (the Roman name for Scotland) all have Scottish accents. | |
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Shadow Archetype | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_b5e63cc4 | comment |
Shadow Archetype: Guern to Marcus' father. Both were officers in the Ninth Legion Hispana, but Guern was a deserter who had lost faith in the legions while Marcus' father died a hero's death fighting for them. | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
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Fiery Redhead: Cottia. She's flame-haired, rebellious, and tends to bite. | |
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Finish Him! | |
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Finish Him!: The amphitheatre crowd tries to do this to Esca, but Marcus and his uncle intervene. | |
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Shout-Out | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Esca the British gladiator and Placidus the handsome tribune owe their names and something of their characters to the protagonist and antagonist of George Whyte-Melville's 1863 novel The Gladiators: A tale of Rome and Judaea, which was read to Sutcliff as a child. There's also a Roman lady named Valeria, but she doesn't have much in common with Aunt Valaria. Compare the general tenor of Uncle Aquila's speech about settling in Britain with Rudyard Kipling's The Roman Centurion's Song, particularly the lines: | |
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Big Friendly Dog | |
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Big Friendly Dog: Cub, who is actually a wolf. | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Marcus' plan to take the eagle without attracting suspicion is described in full, and is thwarted by Esca's dropping of the brooch. How the pair ultimately succeed is, by contrast, not described beforehand. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: While Marcus is trying to steal the eagle, his lamp nearly goes out, but recovers when he prays to Mithras. Was it just a fault in the wick, or were supernatural forces at work? | |
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Red-Headed Stepchild | |
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Red-Headed Stepchild: Cottia, and it even went on to say that her stepfather didn't want her around. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Marcus and Cottia after their reunion. | |
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Bleak Border Base | |
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Bleak Border Base: The frontier fort at Isca Dumnoniorum (modern-day Exeter), where Marcus is initially posted. | |
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Lost Roman Legion | |
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Lost Roman Legion: Marcus's father served with one. | |
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Sympathetic Slave Owner | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_dbf877ac | comment |
Sympathetic Slave Owner: Marcus and his Briton slave Esca go on an extended quest in which the possibilities of murder, and escape come up, and their positions are reversed when they finally meet Esca's tribe. But Marcus' compassionate and trusting treatment of his slave to that point is then rewarded. | |
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Throwing Off the Disability | |
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Throwing Off the Disability: Downplayed - after receiving relatively decent medical attention, Marcus can walk again, but to his despair he'll never be fit for active service again. While he initially has no problems walking or riding through Scotland, his injury starts to get the better of him when he's forced to flee. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: An overarching theme in the book is to compare the freedom of the Celts with the servitude of Rome - the Britons beyond the wall are wolves and hunters, while Romans and their slaves in particular are domesticated hounds. Marcus Aquila is associated with various birds. Not only is his cognomen Latin for eagle, but his childhood is regularly symbolised by an olive-wood bird he carved one summer, and he planned to spend his adulthood marching under the Eagles. Cottia is nicknamed "the little vixen" for her red hair, sharp features, sharper temper, and tendency to bite. the tribe that captured the Eagle are known as the Seal tribe. | |
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Snake Oil Salesman | |
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Snake Oil Salesman: Marcus disguises himself as an eye-doctor to get through Scotland safely. Subverted in that the eye-medicine he sells actually works, he performs his services pro-bono so as not to get weighed down by expensive trinkets, and he sometimes has to undo the further damage tribal medicines have wrought. | |
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Let's Get Out of Here | |
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e71ef25c | comment |
Let's Get Out of Here: Marcus and Esca as soon as they rob the shrine. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Tribune Servius Placidus. He tends to, and apparently enjoys, making other people feel small. | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders | |
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Stupid Sexy Flanders: Marcus and Esca have their moments when Placidus is around; Marcus especially when he lovingly describes Placidus's appearance. | |
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The Natives Are Restless | |
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The Natives Are Restless: Cohort Commander Marcus is told "There is apt to be trouble coming" when he arrives at the camp. | |
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Oh, My Gods! | |
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Oh, My Gods!: The characters invoke deities relevant to the cultures they were raised in. Esca favours Lugh, Aquila Mithras, and other characters invoke gods like Jupiter and Hercules. | |
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Food Porn | |
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Food Porn: Certain items, like Guern's venison and Sasstica's honey-cakes, are described with loving detail. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: | |
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