Marcus Flaminius is a 1792 historical novel by the British writer Cornelia Knight.Looser p.190 It drew on Knight's classical learning and was dedicated to Horace Walpole.O'Brien p.208 Taking the form of a epistolary novel it depicts a Roman soldier Marcus Flaminius captured by the Germanic forces at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. After spending several years as a prisoner and outsider amongst the Cherusci, he then returns to the corrupt Rome of Emperor Tiberius. Knight uses the novel to reflect indirectly on the recent French Revolution.O'Brien pp. 208-9
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