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Boudica or Boudicca (/ ˈ b uː d ɪ k ə, b oʊ ˈ d ɪ k ə /, from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, pronounced [ˈbɨðɨɡ]) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.
Boadicea and Her Daughters is a bronze sculptural group in London representing Boudica, queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising in Roman Britain.It is located to the north side of the western end of Westminster Bridge, near Portcullis House and Westminster Pier, facing Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster across the road.
Tacitus, who described the battle more than 50 years later, imagined Boudica's speech to her followers: 'But now,' she said, 'it is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry, but as one of the people that I am avenging lost freedom, my scourged body, the outraged chastity of my daughters.
Hermaphroditos; raped by (and later merged with) the nymph Salmacis. Hylas; raped by naiads. Lyrcus, son of Phoroneus, raped by Hemithea, by means of alcohol. Odysseus; in some versions, raped by Calypso on the island of Ogygia in his seven-year stay. Silenus; raped by the cyclops Polyphemus.
Boudica was flogged and their daughters raped. [3] Roman financiers called in their loans. [4] All this led to the revolt of the Iceni, under the leadership of Boudica, in 60 or 61. Coins have been found in Suffolk inscribed SVB ESVPRASTO ESICO FECIT, "under Esuprastus Esico made (this)" in Latin. Some archaeologists believe that Esuprastus was ...
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The one at Liverpool, commissioned in 1862 but not completed until five years later, [6] was soon paired with an equestrian portrait of Queen Victoria (1869), the pose based on the earlier bronze statuette. [4] In 1867 Thornycroft was commissioned to make the marble group entitled Commerce for the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens in London ...