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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.
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.
Boudica's two daughters, raped by Roman soldiers Rogneda of Polotsk or Gorislava; according to the Suzdalian Chronicle sub anno 1128, raped by Vladimir , half-brother of her betrothed Yaropolk I of Kiev , in the presence of her parents (10th century) [ 1 ]
Boudica's death [ edit ] After the battle, Boudica is said by Tacitus to have poisoned herself, [ 24 ] though in the Agricola , which was written almost twenty years before the Annals , he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia ("complacency"). [ 31 ]
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A short biography published that year said he had already been working on it "at intervals" for many years. [3] The sculpture was not cast in bronze until 1902, 17 years after his death, [ 2 ] when it was installed on a plinth on the Victoria Embankment , by Westminster Bridge , London. [ 10 ]