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The Eagle of the Ninth

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The Eagle of the Ninth	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Guern. He decides to aid Marcus and Esca to escape, but remains with his tribe and his family.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Uncle Aquila.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_185e498d	type	Chased by Angry Natives
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_185e498d	comment	Chased by Angry Natives: They managed to subvert it once, but then Esca dropped the brooch.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: Roman colonization of Britain.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1b73fada	type	The Dandy
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1b73fada	comment	The Dandy: Tribune Placidus.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1bbb76bc	type	Abandoned Area
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1bbb76bc	comment	Abandoned Area: The deserted Roman fort at Trimontium, abandoned when the Empire pulled back behind Hadrian's Wall.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Marcus and Esca.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Marcus's father.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Cottia after returning from holiday in Aquae Sulis/Bath.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_2e42a3e1	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Guern.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_3f28ec84	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Marcus has brought the eagle back, but the Ninth Legion cannot be restored.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_4604fd4d	comment	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
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_4655ec83	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_4c5f0662	type	Girl Next Door
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_4c5f0662	comment	Girl Next Door: Cottia again.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_544b2bff	type	Signature Item Clue
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_544b2bff	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_559b4bb3	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: The antagonistic tribesmen are portrayed in a sympathetic light.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_5b3e927f	type	All-Natural Snake Oil
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_5b3e927f	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: Esca, for a while.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Marcus Flavius AQUILA. Aquila is Latin for "eagle."
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_823c6e3e	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Esca, until he gets manumitted.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_9f037665	type	Quit Your Whining
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_9f037665	comment	Quit Your Whining:
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_a1154544	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Eagle standard.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_a8a80e26	type	Fashion Dissonance
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_a8a80e26	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_abe4d7b	comment	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 Eagle of the Ninth / int_b4a7b5ef	type	The Queen's Latin
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_b4a7b5ef	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_b5e63cc4	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Cottia. She's flame-haired, rebellious, and tends to bite.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_bb6461b4	type	Finish Him!
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_bb6461b4	comment	Finish Him!: The amphitheatre crowd tries to do this to Esca, but Marcus and his uncle intervene.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_c75df49a	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: Cub, who is actually a wolf.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_c82e751f	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_cb70651c	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d13097e5	type	Red-Headed Stepchild
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d13097e5	comment	Red-Headed Stepchild: Cottia, and it even went on to say that her stepfather didn't want her around.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Marcus and Cottia after their reunion.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d6af093d	type	Bleak Border Base
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d6af093d	comment	Bleak Border Base: The frontier fort at Isca Dumnoniorum (modern-day Exeter), where Marcus is initially posted.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d9f9a94e	type	Lost Roman Legion
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_d9f9a94e	comment	Lost Roman Legion: Marcus's father served with one.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_dbf877ac	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e016e53f	type	Throwing Off the Disability
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e016e53f	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e2ccee25	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e38b0f45	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_e71ef25c	type	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Tribune Servius Placidus. He tends to, and apparently enjoys, making other people feel small.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_eb9e6184	type	Stupid Sexy Flanders
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_eb9e6184	comment	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 Eagle of the Ninth / int_ec0a7691	type	The Natives Are Restless
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_ec0a7691	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_edf8db61	type	Oh, My Gods!
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_edf8db61	comment	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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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Certain items, like Guern's venison and Sasstica's honey-cakes, are described with loving detail.
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The Eagle of the Ninth / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Eagle of the Ninth / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time:
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