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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It's not a very long book, just over 200 pages, I believe. I didn't make it through the amount of information about things we apparently don't know. It's amazing how someone can write a book about a historical figure and completely focus on circumstantial things and everything we don't know for sure. Well, since this woman lived about 2000 years ago, I really did not need to be told that all stories are based on other stories and conclusions which are based on archeological findings. Just tell me about the woman. Well, that didn't happen. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion sent a shock wave across the empire. Who was this woman who defied Rome? Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen is an account of what we know about the real woman, from classical literature, written for the consumption of readers in Rome, and from the archaeological evidence. It also traces her extraordinary posthumous career as the earliest famous w No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But why do we think we know Boudica's story? That's explained in "Part II: Boadicea" where the authors review how the legend (and name) of the Warrior Queen evolved and grew through the centuries, morphing through "histories," plays, poems, art, TV, movies, museum exhibits, and websites. They comprehensively cover most of the non-classical literary sources, how they portray Boadicea (or any of the dozens of alternate spellings) and how the work was of it's time. I found the following quote from the end of the book, to be of enormous value: "We shape our own past, either to get what we need from it or to answer questions about the times we ourselves live in--we get the past we desire." Boudica's legend has been interpreted by many people to get the past they wanted--including Tacitus and Dio--our primary sources.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to see past the veils of legend and dig into the real history--as far as we can know. It is a research book, filled with footnotes and quotes, but the language is accessible. Published in 2005, it has a good survey of current archaeological evidence and revisits some earlier finds with updated interpretations. ( )