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	Lucius Artorius Castus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Artorius then retired from the army and became procurator centenaris (governor) of Liburnia, a part of Dalmatia.
		Although Artorius was not contemporaneous with the Saxon invasions of Britain in the 5th century, it is possible that he was remembered in local tales and legends that grew in the retelling.
		Artorius is identified with King Arthur in the 2004 movie King Arthur (which moved him forwards 300 years to become a contemporary of the Saxons) and the 2005 PC game Barbarian Invasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Artorius_Castus (418 words)

	Lucius Artorius Castus - Wikipedia
		Lucius Artorius Castus was een militaire aanvoerder in het Romeinse leger uit de 2e eeuw.
		In elk geval ging Castus hierna uit het leger en werd hij procurator in Liburnia, een deel van de rustige provincie Dalmatia, een ongewoon hoge positie voor een eques.
		Hoewel Castus niet leefde ten tijde van de Saksische invasies in Britannië in de 5e eeuw, is het mogelijk dat hij herinnerd werd in lokale verhalen en legenden, die in de loop van de eeuwen zijn uitgegroeid tot de beroemde legende van Koning Arthur.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Artorius_Castus (656 words)

	The Heroic Age: Lucius Artorius Castus, N/B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whether Castus fought or not, he would have learned to use the infantry square battle tactic that the Romans employed against the Parthians and with which he was probably already acquainted from his studies.
		Castus had an extensive knowledge of the Iazyges, and he probably had their respect as well, if he indeed was the centurion who defeated them on the Danube and if he also played a role in their defeat by Marcus Aurelius.
		Since Castus was a subordinate and of equestrian rather than of senatorial rank, he would not have socialized with the governor's family, though members of that family could have easily overheard Castus swapping stories with his peers while he was visiting the governor to deliver a report or perform some other business.
	members.aol.com /heroicage1/Issue1/halac2.htm (5036 words)

	Lucius Artorius Castus
		Artorius is the nomen, and is important in that it describes the "gens," or family name.
		'Artorius was an equestrian rank Roman who, for some reason (perhaps hard economic times or he was a younger son with no chance of inheriting) resigned his rank and entered the Roman army as a centurion.
		Castus has two inscriptions, carved in stone, that date to the 190s, that name him as the defender of western Britain and of the forts on Hadrian's Wall that show up in the Arthurian tradition and that detail the Armorican invasion.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/a/artoriuscastus_lucius.htm (697 words)

	Clive Owen - Historical Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lucius Artorius Castus, commander of a detachment of Sarmatian conscripts stationed in Britain, led his troops to Gaul to quell a rebellion.
		This is the first appearance of the name, Artorius, in history and some believe that this Roman military man is the original, or basis, for the Arthurian legend.
		The theory says that Castus' exploits in Gaul, at the head of a contingent of mounted troops, are the basis for later, similar traditions about "King Arthur," and, further, that the name "Artorius" became a title, or honorific, which was ascribed to a famous warrior in the fifth century.
	www.murphsplace.com /owen/arthur/history.html (158 words)

	Angelo: King Arthur
		Lucius Artorius Castus was a Roman general who lived in the late Second Century AD.
		In 185, when his legion collapsed, Castus returned to the northern city of Eboracum, and was then sent by the governor of Britannia to lead cavalry cohorts against an uprising in northwest Gaul.
		Castus’ own legion mutinied against him, and he was sent to lead cavalry units in northwest Gaul – the location of the region of Armorica – both against rebels and in support of the Roman emperor.
	angelo-harris.blogspot.com /2006/02/king-arthur.html (3374 words)

	The Heroic Age: Lucius Artorius Castus
		If Castus was the Roman commander who pursued the Caledonii into Scotland, he would have fought his final punitive battle against them somewhere in the vicinity of the Antonine early in 185.
		While the biography of Lucius Artorius Castus cannot account for every detail in the Arthurian legends, the parallels between Castus and Arthur are striking not only in their number but also in the variety of levels on which they occur.
		Castus meets all of the qualifications required for him to be the historical catalyst for the legends and lived at a time that would make the development of the Arthurian legends consistent with what we see in analogous cycles of legends from Britain.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2lac.htm (4034 words)

	Lucius Artorius Castus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lucius Artorius Castus was a Roman officer who lived in the late second century.
		Lucius Artorius Castus does not mirror every detail of the Arthurian legends, however the parallels between King Arthur and Lucius Artorius Castus are striking across a range of details, both large and small.
		Lucius Artorius Castus lived at a time that was perhaps earlier with the time span of the Arthurian legends.
	www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk /who-was-arthur/lucius-artorius-castus.htm (142 words)

	The Heroic Age: Lucius Artorius Castus
		But Castus, who was guaranteed to be a centurion because of his social rank and who could be expected to eventually land in a magisterial position of some sort, would have been expected to be proficient in the art of public speaking (Nagle 1979:355).
		Because Castus later became the commander of the Iazyges in Britain, it is likely that this larger group is the one to which he was assigned upon his reenlistment.
		Castus was victorious in Armorica, and he may simply have returned his troops to Britain and gone on to assume his next post at this point.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/1/halac.htm (4499 words)

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		In 185, when his legion collapsed, Castus returned to the northern city of Eboracum, and was then sent by the governor of Britannia to lead cavalry cohorts against an uprising in Armorica (modern Brittany).
		However, Castus is only known from three inscriptions from Podstrana on the Dalmatian coast; these do not mention command of any other legions (or establish command of VI Victrix â” he could have been praefectus castrorum, third-in-command of the legion), provide evidence of command of the Sarmatians, or indicate anything about his standard.
		Castus' own legion mutinied, and he was sent to lead cavalry units in northwest Gaul â“ the location of the region of Armorica â“ both against rebels and in support of the Roman emperor.
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	mvnForum - View Thread - King Arthur & the knights of the round table. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the time Castus enlisted, the III Gallica was posted to Syria (Parker 1971:163).20 The legion's primary duty was to keep the peace, with special attention paid to Jewish and Christian movements within the province (Grant 1985:86).
		Castus was primus pilus of the V Macedonica in 175.
		Nor would Castus have confused the rank of praefectus with that of primus pilus on his sarcophagus, the carving of which he commissioned and oversaw in his lifetime.
	www.discusshistory.com /mvnforum/viewthread?thread=28 (4454 words)

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		Their leader, Artorius Castus, is the offspring of a marriage between a Roman and a British woman.
		He may be either a descendant of the original Lucius Artorius Castus, prefect of the VI Vecxtrix Legion and commander of the Sarmatian warriors in exile, or simply a leader who took the name Artorius as a title.
		Interestingly, no record of a leader named Arthur or Artorius has ever been traced to the 6th century, when the historical Arthur is generally believed to have lived, leaving us with Lucius Artorius Castus as the only significant commander of this name in written history.
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	The Life of Antoninus Pius: Would the real King Arthur ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Linda Malcor (her Doctorate is in folklore and mythology) has posted an on-line article on why she believes that a second-century Roman officer named Lucius Artorius Castus is really the King Arthur of legend.
		A Roman inscription that seems to be the tombstone of Artorius Castus was published in 1873 (as CIL III 1919) by the great German scholar Theodor Mommsen.
		The Sarmatian colony in Britain associated with Lucius Artorius Castus and established by Marcus Aurelius lasted for some centuries, and, as cataphracts, may well have become the nucleus of the forces commanded by the real Arthur in the 5th century.
	antoninuspius.blogspot.com /2006/10/would-real-king-arthur.html (1091 words)

	Political Film Society - King Arthur
		When Artorius reaches Honorius, he liberates prisoners captured by the Romans from the Woads, that is, those who were not tortured to death by the Christian leaders among them for the crime of paganism.
		Much of the movie depicts the Battle of Badon Hill (fought on the ice) in which Artorius's Sarmatian legionnaires and the mangy Woads defeat the filthy Saxons; Artorius has promised that those under his command will be free and equal after victory, though Guinevere oddly leads the charge against the Saxons.
		When that victory arrives, Artorius is crowned King Arthur with Guinevere his queen, a ceremony at Stonehenge.
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/kingarthur.html (745 words)

	Lucius Tiberius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucius appears in later, particularly English literature such as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and a Roman Emperor defeated by King Arthur appears in French Arthurian literature as well, notably in the Vulgate Cycle.
		Lucius fights to reclaim Gaul from his treacherous tribune, Frollo at the time of King Arthur's rise to power.
		Ironically, one proposed candidate for the historical King Arthur is one Lucius Artorius Castus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucius_Hiberius (265 words)

	Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their commander was a Roman soldier named Lucius Artorius Castus.
		Their symbol was a sword thrust into the ground or a wooden platform, which had been the symbol of their war god.
		Another possible King Arthur was a second Lucius Artorius Castus, who was born in the fort and, like his first-century ancestor, became a cavalry officer.
	www.kidscastle.si.edu /issues/1996/april/letters_apr96.php (749 words)

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		Other writers, such as Kemp Malone and Linda A. Malcor, suggest that King Arthur should be identified as one Lucius Artorius Castus, a Roman dux of the 2nd century, who probably led a numerus of Sarmatian, which was based at Ribchester and which campaigned at and north of Hadrian’s Wall.
		In fact, the modern Ossetian tale of the "Death of Batraz" (the leader of the Narts) matches Malory's tale of the death of Arthur almost point for point, except the sword is thrown into a sea rather than a lake (The Ossetians are the descendants of the Alans).
		While Castus and the Sarmatian forces lived three hundred years before the traditional dates of Arthur's battles, many oral narratives survive much longer than that, with the adventures of subsequent historical figures often credited to "heroes" who lived many centuries earlier.
	www.kingdomoflegends.co.za /kingarthurlegend.htm (3379 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Film Review 07 13 04
		It is possibly this half-Roman, half-British soldier Artorius (or a man very much like him) who first germinated the very idea of carving a free and civilized England from the continental chaos of Dark Ages Europe.
		As a young boy, Artorius pulls the sword Excalibur not from its magical prison of stone, but from the soil atop his father's fresh grave.
		There is a surprising resonance to the quandaries Artorius faces; he is a man caught between his God and his war, a believer who sees his Christian compatriots torture pagans, a democrat fighting for the ideal behind the current corruption.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2004-07-13/film_review2.html (813 words)

	King Arthur - Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gruffudd, Stellan Skarsgaard
		The name was Lucius Artorius Castus and the battle was the Battle of Badon Hill.
		Castus was sent to Britain by Marcus Aurelius, leader of Rome, which controlled the western world.
		A Sarmatian cavalry unit under the command of the half-Roman, half-British Lucius Artorius Castus, is assigned to protect Britain from the barbarian Saxons who were encroaching from beyond the great dividing line of Hadrian's Wall.
	madeinatlantis.com /movies_central/2004/arthur.htm (8761 words)

	EARTHSONGS: The Journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans, Volume 8, Issue 3, Lughnasadh 2004, Copyright (c) 2004
		The ‘new’ historical evidence is apparently a single name — Lucius Artorius Castus — a 2nd century Roman commander mentioned in the “Roman History” of the classical writer Dio Cassius.
		According to Bruckheimer/Fuqua, Arthur is a Romano-Britain, presumably descended from the above-mentioned Lucius Artorius Castus.
		Dio Cassius’s entry regarding Castus includes the information he was in command of a troop of Sarmatian cavalry posted to Hadrian’s Wall.
	www.faeryshaman.org /es83/es83reg1.htm (2825 words)

	King Arthur anyone? - Page 2 - Total War Center Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I would imaging that the legends of King Arthur are a comination of Artorius Castus and another later figure.
		No one here said Lucius Artorius Castus was not a real person, simply that the movie uses Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis for Arthur, and that it places him over 200 years after he'd be dead.
		If Artorius Castus was a prominent figure, it wouldn't surprise me to find a few of his decendants living in the appropriate timeframe.
	www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?p=713717 (1850 words)

	Crítica y comentarios sobre el cine - Bolivia.com
		Castus fue enviado a Bretaña por Marcus Aurelius, líder de Roma, que controlaba el mundo occidental.
		Una unidad de caballería Sármata bajo el comando de Lucius Artorius Castus, mitad romano mitad britón, es asignada a proteger Bretaña de los bárbaros sajones que estaban avanzando más allá de la gran línea divisoria de la Muralla de Adriano.
		El grupo de Castus, incluyendo a Lancelot, Gawain, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, y Dagonet, era un grupo rudo y sin piedad, odiado y temido por los nativos Woad, quienes estaban bajo el mando de un misterioso chamán y líder de la guerrilla llamado Merlín.
	cine.bolivia.com /critico.asp?id=40 (889 words)

	Academic Presentations on The Roman Empire
		In addition to the Castus inscriptions, there are what I believe to be other references to him in some of the "nameless" figures that appear in the histories of Cassius Dio and Herodian.
		Scholars now believe that the pieces of Castus's sarcophagus date to no later than 200 (Kirigin and Marin 1989:143),5 which means that Lucius Artorius Castus most likely died prior to that date.
		Malcor goes on to describe the various tours of duty this outstanding cavalry officer had, correlating them to other historical events occurring during his service and reflects her extensive research.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mharrsch/2006/05/lucius-artorius-castus-by-linda-malcor.html (370 words)

	King Arthur anyone? - Total War Center Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artorius Castus, the supposed 'real Arthur' in this movie DID command Sarmatian auxiliaries...and died nearly 200 years before the withdraw of Rome from Britain.
		I said the person they're basing this supposed 'real' Arthur on (who was, as I said, named Artorius Castus (actually Lucius Artorius Castus), and really did command Sarmatians) had been dead for 200 years by the time the film starts (and that was also when Sarmatians were recorded as being in Britain).
		Artorius may have been part of the basis for the 'Arthur' legend, but the 'real' Arthur, I doubt he was.
	www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?t=39674 (3075 words)

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