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Hey, cool! FauxPseudo art!
Btw, the Boadicca graphic novels (well, at least the ones I tried) turned out to be a disappointment. Just some by-the-numbers storytelling, solid but unremarkable art, and so far they haven’t really explored her character very well. TBF, I guess not much is really known about her, so they’d have to invent a lot. Still, I was hoping I could find some inspirational stuff to help out with your project.
Oh well. I think there’s one other series which I might just check out (at least briefly) to see what it’s like…
That sucks. Just about every fact we have can fit on one piece of paper and almost all of that is about where she was and how many people died as a result. So any story is going to include a lot of speculation. Fact: She had two daughters. Speculation: their names and ages. That kind of stuff.
You know, in light of that, I’d say I was a little harsh in my above evaluation. The books did cover much intrigue between her tribe and the Romans, and between her tribe and others in pre-Britannica, both the ones more passive, more quarrelsome, plus one or two leaders who absolutely wanted to unite the island’s peoples’ together to kick the Romans’ arses.
It also covered the relationship between Boadicca / Boudicca (etc) and her father, plus her and her future & later husband. It also addressed the generally low amount of respect that both the tribes and the Romans accorded to women being involved in discussions of significance. Of course, what set her apart is that she was also a priestess of the local Celts, just a slight cut below their druids.
So yeah, given how evidently little info there was about her, I’d say the books’ creators actually did a good job with coming up with plausible material, even if reading-wise they’re still kind of dry-ish. It’s also pretty clear that the first two books nicely set up the premise of her being a more and more important figure in Celtic resistance, very likely to be seen in tomes 3-4, not yet published.
Let me know if you’re looking for any particular angle of inspiration, and it might actually be there. I could kill two birds with one stone perhaps, and make a post about such at EGN.
The kind of material I’m looking for is while they were were romanized celts how much of each were they? She was a noble woman so would she be doing a Roman hair style or would that have been dropped the moment she decided to go to war? Would she have had tattoos? What’s the right amount of jewelry? Would she have worn chainmail in battle? What’s the proper size for a first century Celtic chariot horse? Would the horses have been armored? What does Celtic horse armor look like? She definitely had a spear but would she have also carried a sword?
All the visual things. I have lots of examples of period Celtic metal art but because the Iceni were more romanized than other celts how did that change the appearance of their textiles?
The kind of material I’m looking for is while they were were romanized celts how much of each were they?
From the period I read, Roman slavishness was still in its infancy. That covered the direct transition from Claudius to Nero. I.e., “Romanizing” was pretty much a slap in the face for most tribes, at that point.
She was a noble woman so would she be doing a Roman hair style or would that have been dropped the moment she decided to go to war?
The GN’s were poor upon such details, and again, the first two were pretty-much focused on setting up the whole situation, where she hadn’t gone to war yet. But they did make an important point that her husband was humiliated so very badly that he retreated for a long time in utter shame (he literally got publicly bathed in shit by the Romans), directly leading Boudicca to take up the tenuous Celtic, regional reigns, in his absence.
From my read of history, that’s actually happened many times over the years, here & there, so it does seem quite plausible.
Most of the other Q’s I’d think are worth asking of PugJesus or r/AskHistorians, or similar expert. Maybe even an LLM. The books skimp on such details, sadly.
