| Boudicca Contributor(s): Johnson, Marguerite (Author) |
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ISBN: 1853997323 ISBN-13: 9781853997327 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Ancient - General - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Ancients in Action |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 8.4" (0.44 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Boudicca (Boadicea), Leader of the Iceni, is synonymous with rebellion and feminine strength, yet what we know of her is often far removed from the time in which she lived and the early authors who first wrote about her. In this new study, Marguerite Johnson returns to the original sources and interrogates them in order to unearth what the ancients thought of this most enigmatic heroine of British freedom. After a concise overview of Boudicca and the British rebellion against Rome, she turns to the writings of Tacitus and Dio and provides an in-depth analysis of their views on Boudicca and her people. These readings, which form the centrepiece of the book, are followed by an insightful series of readings of Boudicca post-antiquity, including the scant references to her in the writings that emerged after the fall of the Roman Empire to the most modern re-workings of this most fascinating of historical icons. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Marguerite: - Marguerite Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the co-author (with Terry Ryan) of Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook (Bloomsbury 2005), author of Sappho (2006) and Boudicca (2012), both in Bloomsbury's Ancients in Action series, co-editor (with Harold Tarrant) of Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator (Bloomsbury 2012) and author of Ovid on Cosmetics (Bloomsbury 2015). |
