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With all the genius of the detective, Peter Connolly has superbly rebuilt the life span of the Roman soldier--who lived significantly less than one hundred years following the death of Christ--using a huge variety of historical content, including tombstones and unique Roman files written on papyrus present in the sands of Egypt and Syria. The knight's name was Tiberius Claudius Maximus and he offered underneath the emperor Trajan, in his excellent conflicts in Central Europe and the Center East. Maximus was decorated 3 times for valor and became well-known for shopping down Rome's great adversary, Decebalus (chief of the Dacians, whose countries included all what's now Romania). Both of these quantities find the soldier's career in the day he entered the Seventh Legion on the Danube frontier in Central Europe, in about 85 Advertisement, for the day he retired as a cavalry officer in Mesopotamia some thirty years later.