The Eagle of the Ninth โ Season 1, Episode 2: Esca
Drama, War & Politics โข 30 min โข 1 season, 6 episodes โข โ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
Badly wounded in the battle, Marcus is discharged from the legion, his soldiering at an end. He goes to recuperate with his uncle Aquila in Calleva. There he saves Esca, a British gladiator, from death in the arena, and from him he hears of the lost legion.
About The Eagle of the Ninth
In Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard, which vanished with the legion 13 years earlier.