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The Britons in the film are dressed in cloaks and trousers and do not fight naked (which I am sure is correct, though classical accounts of barbarians often emphasised their nakedness). And, of course, as always, this Boudica has red hair – another detail drawn from Dio’s description. She is also given a bronze sword handed down from a warrior ancestor. A magical touch Boudica could hardly have imagined her story to last for millennia, nor would she have recognised herself as a harbinger of the British Empire, a figure of nationalism, a symbol for suffragists or a supporter of Brexit. British queens and female politicians have adapted her warrior identity. Elizabeth I was compared with the outspoken warrior, and Queen Victoria embraced her as a precursor, a Celtic Victoria. In the 20th century, Margaret Thatcher was known as a political battleaxe, a ‘Boadicea in pearls’. More recently, Theresa May was dubbed the ‘Brexit Boadicea’. Boudica’s resistance to the Romans is recast as removal from the EU, her defeat overlooked by Brexit supporters. In autumn 2018, her story played out on the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe in the form of Tristan Bernays’s play Boudica, perhaps warning against ‘the danger of splenetic isolation’. The first target of the rebels was Camulodunum (modern Colchester), a Roman colonia for retired soldiers. [16] A Roman temple had been erected there to Claudius, at great expense to the local population. Combined with brutal treatment of the Britons by the veterans, this had caused resentment towards the Romans. [17]
a b Newark, Timothy (1989). Women Warlords: an illustrated military history of female warriors. London: Blandford. p.86. ISBN 978-07137-1-965-9.
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Cassius Dio (2015) [1925]. "Epitome of Book LXII". Roman history (in Ancient Greek and English). Vol.VIII. Translated by Cary, Earnest; Foster, Herbert Baldwin. London; New York: William Heinemann; G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp.61–171. hdl: 2027/mdp.39015004124510. ISBN 978-0-434-99176-1. OCLC 906698883– via HathiTrust. This History primary resource assists with teaching the following History objectives from the National Curriculum: We are an inclusive, vibrant and international community. Our students develop knowledge and gain essential and transferable skills through research-led teaching and lab-based training. This cap was given out to people who bought the Rare PSP Launch Day Shirt as compensation for the Launch Day Shirt being accidentally made free in some regions.
The English poet Edmund Spenser used the story of Boudica in his poem The Ruines of Time, involving a story about a British heroine he called 'Bunduca'. [42] A variation of this name was used in the Jacobean play Bonduca (1612), a tragicomedy that most scholars agree was written by John Fletcher, in which one of the characters was Boudica. [43] A version of that play called Bonduca, or the British Heroine was set to music by the English composer Henry Purcell in 1695. [44] One of the choruses, " Britons, Strike Home!", became a popular patriotic song in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries. [45] Depiction during the 18th and 19th centuries [ edit ] The statue Boadicea and Her Daughters near Westminster Pier, London Boudica's husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two daughters, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome. He left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. When he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. [1] The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons. Hingley, Richard; Unwin, Christina (2006) [2005]. Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. London: Hambledon Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-4060-0. OCLC 741691125– via Internet Archive. I can discuss why people and events from a particular time in the past were important, placing them within a historical sequence .
Progressive as a female leader, she is retrogressive in her desire to remain separate from Roman civilization Curran, John E. (1996). "Spenser and the Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments and the Problem of Roman Britain" (PDF). Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. Indiana University & Purdue University. 25 (3): 273–292.
a b Adler, Eric (2008). "Boudica's Speeches in Tacitus and Dio". The Classical World. 101 (2): 173–195. doi: 10.1353/clw.2008.0006. ISSN 0009-8418. JSTOR 25471937. S2CID 162404957– via JSTOR. Johnson, Marguerite (2014). "Boadicea and British Suffrage Feminists". Outskirts. Perth: University of Western Australia. 31. ISSN 1445-0445 . Retrieved 22 October 2022. Boudica seeks freedom from persecution and the changes forced upon her and her Britons by a colonial power. She thus presents a problem for the idea of progress. She is a progressive figure from a modern perspective, as a female political and military leader, but retrogressive in her desire to remain separate from the Romans and their conceptions of civilisation and urban development. Her celebration of the lifestyle of the Britons includes gender equality and the opportunity to share equally in valour, but such equality would require a return to the Iron Age. a b c Potter, T. W. (2004). "Boudicca (d. AD 60/61)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/2732 . Retrieved 4 October 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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