Take No Prisoners
by Doug Matthews
Title
Take No Prisoners
Artist
Doug Matthews
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Photograph - Photograph
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Boudica or Boudicca (Latinised as Boadicea or Boudicea and known in Welsh as Buddug) was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61, and died shortly after its failure, having supposedly poisoned herself. She is considered a British folk hero.
Boudica's husband, Prasutagus, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome and left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and 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 provides an alternative explanation for Boudica's response, saying that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons. (Wikipedia)
In this image I tried to depict her as the warrior queen out for revenge on the Romans. And revenge she did indeed obtain, wiping two Roman towns off the map in ancient Britain and slaughtering all the inhabitants.
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September 27th, 2018
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