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Historical person
c. 250–306
Constantius Chlorus was a Roman tetrarch and emperor who restored Britain to central imperial rule in 296. His invasion ended the breakaway regime founded by Carausius and continued by Allectus.
The Silver Branch places the imperial reconquest led in Constantius’s name behind its final struggle against Allectus. Constantius and the reconquest are historical; the novel’s central resistance group is fictional.
Series
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman Britain Trilogy follows three widely separated generations connected by a dolphin-engraved family ring as Roman power in Britain changes and finally disappears. The Eagle of the Ninth is set in the second-century province and sends Marcus Aquila beyond Hadrian’s Wall. The Silver Branch moves to…
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