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Boudicca - Queen of the Iceni - Legendary Celts - Hand Painted
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Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, pewter miniature in 90mm scale.
Brief History:
King Prasutagus (AD 50-60) following the Roman invasion of Britain under Claudius in AD 43 became a very rich and powerful client of the Romans. After he died however the Iceni became a Roman subject population. His widow, Boudicca and her two daughters were severely humiliated by the Romans, so she led a revolt of the Iceni and several other tribes which lasted for several months in 60-61.
The Boudiccan forces burned and destroyed the three major towns of Londinium (London), Verulamium (St. Albans), and Camulodunum (Colchester), killing many thousands of citizens. The revolt was eventually suppressed in AD 61 by the Roman military governor, Suetonius Paullinus. Boudicca ended her life with a vial of poison after losing the battle.
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Boudicca
Written by P. C. Cast
Review by Fiona Alison
AD 60/61. Iceni chief Prasutagus is dead, his 33-year-old wife Boudicca now the accepted queen of Tribe Iceni. When tax collector Decianus and his centuria attack the Iceni settlement of Tasceni without warning, Boudicca is viciously flogged, her two young daughters brutally gang-raped, and the tribe is decimated. In the name of the tribe’s patroness, the goddess Andraste, Boudicca vows vengeance for her people. Acknowledged as a trained warrior and War Queen, she allies with the Trinovantes to lead successful attacks on Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium, then withdraws to prepare for all-out war to expel the Romans from Britain.
Cast’s epic story is crafted around events chronicled by Roman historian, Tacitus, whose father-in-law, Agricola, was an eyewitness to the uprising. Happily, the author doesn’t rely on modernisations, yet the story and its lessons are easily accessible to today’s audiences, as its characters bound with dynamic life. The thoughts and feelings of the tribe are felt through details of their life and culture told by Boudicca in her gripping story. Cast handles a long list of characters, tribes, towns and areas of ancient Britain with seeming ease, without need for introductory maps or
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Robert Hale, Author, 2006, ISBN 0-7090-7958-3
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