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The Eagle of the Ninth is a historical adventure novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. Set in Roman Britain in the 117s after the building of Hadrian's Wall, it is the story of a young Roman officer Marcus Aquila's search to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion in the north of Britain. Travelling in disguise as a Greek eye doctor beyond Hadrian's Wa... More

The Eagle of the Ninth is a historical adventure novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. Set in Roman Britain in the 117s after the building of Hadrian's Wall, it is the story of a young Roman officer Marcus Aquila's search to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion in the north of Britain. Travelling in disguise as a Greek eye doctor beyond Hadrian's Wall he finds that a demoralised and mutinous Ninth Legion was readily destroyed by a great rising of the northern tribes. In part this disgrace was redeemed by a heroic last stand by a small remnant around the legion's eagle standard. Marcus' hope of seeing the lost legion re-established is dashed but he is able to bring back the bronze eagle so that it can no longer serve as a symbol of Roman defeat and as such be a danger to the frontier. The Eagle of the Ninth is one of Sutcliff's earlier books but may perhaps be her most well-known title. It is the first in a sequence of novels, followed by The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Sword at Sunset, Dawn Wind, Sword Song, and The Shield Ring; the sequence loosely traces a family, of the Roman Empire and then Britain, who inherit an emerald seal ring bearing the insignia of a dolphin. -- Wikpedia

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