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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.
It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain, and it was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni tribe. The uprising was motivated by the Romans' failure to honour an agreement they had made with Boudica's husband, Prasutagus , regarding the succession of his kingdom upon his death, and by the brutal mistreatment of Boudica ...
Boudica (or sometimes Boudica: Queen of War), is a British 2023 action drama film directed and written by Jesse V. Johnson. The film follows the eponymous Celtic warrior of the Iceni people , Boudica , in Roman Britain and how she revolted against the Romans after the death of her husband, Prasutagus .
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.
Prasutagus (died AD 60 or 61) was king of the Iceni, a British Celtic tribe who inhabited roughly what is now Norfolk, in the 1st century AD. He is best known as the husband of Boudica . Prasutagus may have been one of the eleven kings who surrendered to Claudius following the Roman conquest in 43, [ 1 ] or he may have been installed as king ...
The site today North Wall. Venta Icenorum (Classical Latin: [ˈwɛnta ɪkeːˈnoːrũː], [1] literally "marketplace of the Iceni") [2] was the civitas [3] or capital of the Iceni tribe, located at modern-day Caistor St Edmund in the English county of Norfolk.
The Iceni (/ aɪ ˈ s iː n aɪ / eye-SEEN-eye, Classical Latin: [ɪˈkeːniː]) or Eceni were an ancient Celtic tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire , and bordered the area of the Corieltauvi to the west, and the Catuvellauni and ...
Bonduca, the queen of the Iceni, gloats over the defeats suffered by the Romans at the hands of her forces.She predicts that the Romans will soon be crushed. Bonduca's confidence is challenged by her general Caratach, who tells her that the Romans are not easily crushed and that the war will be very different from the tribal conflicts they are familiar with.