#The Eagles Of Rome

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Morphea from Les Aigles de Rome The Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini

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Enrico Marini - Morphea, Les Aigles de Rome, Livre VI / The Eagles Of Rome, Book VI (2023)

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Enrico Marini: Priscilla

The Eagles of Rome

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The Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini is an example of the great historical fiction comics the European comic scene has to offer. This is my review.

One of the things I love about European comics is the number of great historical fiction titles available. So, I thought I share a review I did of one of my favorites: The Eagles of Rome. 

The Eagles of Rome, by Enrico Marini, is set in the The Roman Empire in the first century AD, during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Rome is seeking to expand its boarders into Germania. Towards this end, a young Germanian prince has been sent to Rome to be fostered as part of a peace agreement with the Cherusci tribe. To his people he is Ermanamer, but the Romans have given him a new name: Arminius. Arminius has been sent to live with Titus Valerius Falco and his son Marcus. The comic follows Arminius and Marcus as the grow into men and join the legion. As they grow, Arminius finds himself increasingly drawn to the land of his birth. Marcus and Arminius are going to find themselves on opposite sides of a great conflict. In time it will be known as the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 

The Eagles of Rome isn’t finished yet, as Marini writes and draws the comic all one his own. There’s usually a few years wait between volumes, but it is totally worth it. Marini takes his time to ensure a quality comic. The comic is illustrated in gorgeous watercolor paintings, and you can tell Marini puts lots of love and care into his artwork. 

The historical accuracy is rock solid as well. A few events are shifted around to make for better story flow, but otherwise it is all perfectly accurate to the historical record. The biggest bit of artistic license is that Marcus and his family are totally fictional. They’re mostly there to give the Roman perspective on things. Funnily enough, DC did this thing a few years back where they hired European comic writers to make comics based on iconic DC heroes. Marini wrote a Batman comic, and he drew Bruce Wayne almost exactly like Marcus. 

There’s also little details that add to the historical accuracy. Statues and buildings are covered in vibrant colored paint, just as they were in Roman times. We also get to see the seedier parts of Rome and how, if you were poor, living in Rome was like living in a third world country. 

I don’t know when the next issue is coming out, but I can’t wait to see what happens next. Have you read The Eagles of Rome? If so, what did you think? 

Link to the full review on my blog is here: http://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2019/07/comic-review-eagles-of-rome-vol-1-5-by.html?m=1

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Have you ever heard of Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini? I always thought the character Marcus Valerius Falco is what a younger Tullius might have looked like.

//I've never heard of it but yo, that Marcus is a babe and he's even got those super arched brows that Tullius has as well. So ya I could see him looking similar to him

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Every Roman legion was accompanied by an aquila, an eagle standard that symbolized the power and pride of the Roman Empire. Each legion’s aquilifer, or eagle-bearer, was one of its more respected soldiers. He was well-paid and got to wear a lion skin. He had one job — protect the standard at all costs, delivering it with his dying breath to his general if necessary. On Constantine's Arch, we can see several of these eagle-bearers:

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“Les Aigles de Rome: Livre V” Enrico Marini 2016

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Poster for the Rome International Exposition (1911). Artwork by Duilio Cambellotti.

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Roman Empire Flag (if the Roman Empire converted to Gnostic Christianity)

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Marcus and Priscilla from the Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini

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Enrico Marini - Morphea, Les Aigles de Rome, Livre VI / The Eagles Of Rome, Book VI (2023)

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The Eagles of Rome

by Enrico Marini

Europe Comics

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I shall take a fun fact, por favor! And if they're not free, then I shall simply steal one when you aren't looking

Uh, no Fact theft, please. That's just rude (and also a crime, I will send the Tumblr police). Do that, and I'll be so sad I'll just lock myself alone in my room and eat kinetic sand (yum-yum!) for a day.

Today You Learned about the IX Hispanic Legion, the famous Lost Legion of Romans that disappeared in Britain.

It picked up the name when it was sent to the Hispania Province by Augustus to fight enemies of Rome, but its most famous station was in Britain, where it took part in the invasion. They went into Caledonia (Scotland) and nearly got beaten, but survived, and there are records of it until 108 AD in Eboracum (York).

And then all mention of them in the records we have disappears.

In modern day, this led to all kinds of speculation, popularized by fiction like Eagle of the Ninth and its film adaptation, The Eagle. The most popular theory says it was wiped out in a battle with the native Caledonian people, though some fiction tries to tie it to Arthurian legends or something. In any case, it's famous as THE Lost Legion, the one that disappeared without a trace.

So what really happened?

Welp... probably nothing so dramatic. Just because no more mentions survive, doesn't mean that it was a great mystery. It's possible that it didn't actually disappear, it just moved somewhere and the record of it didn't survive.

In fact, while we don't have written word on it, archaeology has shown that they were just reassigned to another post. We have signs that at least some of them ended up in what is now the Netherlands, though whether that's the whole legion or just a detachment is unclear.

We don't know for sure, though, and a lost Roman legion sure makes a really cool story, doesn't it?