Iceni

Identity does not grow until it has taken root in belonging.Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to. When travelling, people often subconsciously change in order to fit into new environments. They must have adventures to know where they genuinely correspond. Eventually, once they have found genuine comfort in their new environment, a new home is created.Belonging is one of the consequential themes that emerge in The Eagle of the Ninth. It demonstrates how…

This essay will discuss the question of whether equestrians were more important than senators in the running of the empire. In doing so, I shall evaluate the role of both the Senate and individual equestrians under the Julio-Claudian emperors. I will investigate Augustus’ actions towards the Senate and his raising of the Equestrian Order, Tiberius’ relationship with the Senate and the role of Sejanus, Gaius’ relationship with the Senate, Claudius’ actions towards the Senate and his promotion of…

proving to be eternally popular. In the Celtic world, symbolism was everything and it can be assumed to have been used to identify different tribes. Britain alone was made up of numerous tribes from the Catuvellauni tribe in southern England, the Iceni in the East to the Briganties in the North. While it is not known whether the appearance of the people differed between the tribes, one wonders whether their body art and ornamentation did. “Rather like the way North American Indians,…

This essay will use primary and secondary sources to justify war. The primary sources used will be a speech from the Queen of the Celts, Boudicea, and one from Great Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The two secondary sources will come from scholarly, peer reviewed sources. They will be used to back up the primary sources. These two speeches took place at different times in history. However, both show the justifications that these leaders used to encourage their people to fight with…

How reliable a picture of the economic structure of any one Celtic society can we gain from the ancient sources? In terms of economy, the Trinovantes (had a wide range of different industries as well as benefitting from close trading links with Rome. Archaeological artefacts discovered within the Trinovantes tribal territory can be used as reliable sources to help establish a picture of the economic structure of this Celtic society. Ptolemy states in his Geography (2.3) that ‘… further to the…

In the simple words of Julius Caesar, "Veni, vidi, vici." Their meaning: I came I saw and I conquered. This is exactly what Roman Emperor Hadrian did when he built the famous wall across Britain. Hadrian’s wall was truly a magnificent accomplishment. Unlike the Great Wall of China, it was not built from slave labor or anything of the sort, but skilled craftsman, many of who gave their lives for Rome. In 122 A.D., Hadrian ordered his troops to construct a wall for protection of Britannia and…