The Fifteenth Legion

by Kent Baker

How did you use your time in the Midwives?

I used my time to recharge my motivation and momentum to write again.

What is a discovery you made about yourself or your process?

I seem to need an external source, validation, or reason to write at the moment.

Can you describe your piece / process for us?

This work is about the Roman Legion Apollinaris, or the 15th Legion, raised by Octavian (Augustus) around 41/40 BCE, which replaced the previous Legion of the same number which met its end in Africa in 49 BCE. Its honors include the capture of the Jewish general Josephus (later a prominent historian) in the First Jewish Revolt and was led by the future Emperor Titus in the Dacian and Parthian Wars