ENGLAND: GREAT BOUDICA - Celts vs Romans theatre war reconstruction at Granary Square in London/

ENGLAND: GREAT BOUDICA - Celts vs Romans theatre war reconstruction at Granary Square in London, 2014 Boudica or Boudicca, also known as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug was a queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. According to Roman sources, shortly after the uprising failed, she poisoned herself or died of her wounds, although there is no actual evidence of her fate. She is considered a British folk hero. Boudica’s husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two children whose names are unknown, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, and left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. However, when he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. Cassius Dio explains Boudica’s response by saying that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confisc