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The Grass Crown (Latin: corona graminea) or Blockade Crown (corona obsidionalis) was the highest and rarest of all military decorations in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was presented only to a general, commander, or officer whose actions saved a legion or the entire army.
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The Grass Crown is the second historical novel in Colleen...
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- The Grass Crown (novel)
1. Jan. 2001 · The Grass Crown is the second historical novel in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, published in 1991. The novel opens shortly after the action of The First Man in Rome. Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla eat dinner together with their wives, and discuss the threat presented by Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II ...
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The Grass Crown or Blockade Crown (Latin: corona graminea or corona obsidionalis) was the highest and rarest of all military decorations in the Roman Republic and early Roman empire. It was presented only to a general, commander, or officer whose actions saved the legion or the entire army. One example of actions leading to awarding of a grass crown would be a general who broke the blockade around a beleaguered Roman army. The crown was made from plant materials taken from the battlefield, including grasses, flowers, and various cereals such as wheat; it was presented to the general by the army he had saved.
Pliny wrote about the grass crown at some length in his Natural History (Naturalis Historia):
Pliny also lists the persons who by their deeds won the grass crown:
•Lucius Siccius Dentatus
•Publius Decius Mus (received two grass crowns—one from his own army, and another from the troops which he had rescued when surrounded)
•Fabius Maximus (after Hannibal had been expelled from Italy)
•Mural crown
•Civic crown
•Naval crown
•Laurel wreath
•Corolla (chaplet)
•Vinok
HarperCollins, Apr 7, 2020 - Fiction - 1152 pages. New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties....
The Grass Crown (Latin: corona graminea) or Blockade Crown (corona obsidionalis) was the highest and rarest of all military decorations in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was presented only to a general, commander, or officer whose actions saved a legion or the entire army.
