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Article: Roman legacy; Rhun's journey charts Welsh fight against Roman conquest.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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Byline: By OWEN HUGHES
THE STEADFAST resistance of the Celts against the all powerful Romans forms the backdrop to an exciting new TV series. In the three-part Y Rhufeiniaid (The Romans), presenter Rhun ap Iorwerth looks at the period between 43 and 410 AD.
During this time, Wales and Britain were on the western fringes of one of the most powerful empires in world history.
It ponders why Emperor Claudius decided to dispatch an army to this untamed island, although a century earlier, Julius Caesar had failed to conquer Britain.
With the help of dramatic reconstructions and the latest computer technology, Rhun takes viewers on an ...