Marcus Flaminius

Marcus Flaminius is a 1792 historical novel by the British writer Cornelia Knight. It drew on Knight's classical learning and was dedicated to Horace Walpole. 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.