03-18-2017, 04:01 PM
David Scothorn wrote:
But even the rape of Boudica's daughters might have been policy
Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. Ravaging of the Iceni Court etc
Is this is literary licence and hyperbole?
Especially in an Imperial or Dictatorial society, this is the martial policy of an aggressor and was probably commonplace, as it is now in certain conflicts.
The more I thought about the attack on the Iceni aristocracy and Boudica and her daughters the more I have come to the conclusion that this was not just a Decianus tax gathering raid but a full on Roman assertion and standard policy of taking the Iceni homelands into the Empire as they had done with a number of other tribal areas that did not have a Client King.
The whipping and raping was part of the punishment as was the reduction of the aristocracy to slaves for trying to stop the Emperor from having his lands as Rome would see it.
So perhaps it was just a standard method of conquest to put in place Client Kings / Queens and then when they died take over their land at a convenient time, which would have the advantage of limiting the amount of people you had to fight during an invasion / conquest.
Obviously however with the Iceni they decided to rise up and collaborate with other tribes to confront Rome which would have taken some planning and caught everyone off guard....and that is the surprising thing that they managed to be so effective.....
Deryk
But even the rape of Boudica's daughters might have been policy
Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. Ravaging of the Iceni Court etc
Is this is literary licence and hyperbole?
Especially in an Imperial or Dictatorial society, this is the martial policy of an aggressor and was probably commonplace, as it is now in certain conflicts.
The more I thought about the attack on the Iceni aristocracy and Boudica and her daughters the more I have come to the conclusion that this was not just a Decianus tax gathering raid but a full on Roman assertion and standard policy of taking the Iceni homelands into the Empire as they had done with a number of other tribal areas that did not have a Client King.
The whipping and raping was part of the punishment as was the reduction of the aristocracy to slaves for trying to stop the Emperor from having his lands as Rome would see it.
So perhaps it was just a standard method of conquest to put in place Client Kings / Queens and then when they died take over their land at a convenient time, which would have the advantage of limiting the amount of people you had to fight during an invasion / conquest.
Obviously however with the Iceni they decided to rise up and collaborate with other tribes to confront Rome which would have taken some planning and caught everyone off guard....and that is the surprising thing that they managed to be so effective.....
Deryk
Deryk
