Boudica : warrior woman of Roman Britain

Boudica : warrior woman of Roman Britain / Caitlin C. Gillespie.

"In ad 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of...

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Main Author: Gillespie, Caitlin C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Women in antiquity.
Subjects:
Boadicea, > Queen, > -62.
Boadicea, > Queen, > -62
55 B.C.-449 A.D.
Queens > Great Britain > Biography.
Romans > Great Britain.
Iceni > History.
Queens in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Iceni
Queens
Queens in literature
Romans
Great Britain > History > Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
Great Britain > History, Military > 55 B.C.-449 A.D.
Great Britain
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Military history
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Britain: the final frontier
  • Wife, queen, Roman?
  • Family and freedom
  • We learned these things from the romans
  • Dux femina
  • I call upon you, Andraste
  • The wolf and the hare
  • Epilogue: warrior woman.

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