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Episode CLXXIV - Boudicca

Emperors of Rome

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The Romans and the Germans in Tacitus' Speeches

In chapters 36 and 37 of tacitus, we get budica making a speech to her troops. Tacitus says that the germani do the germanic peoples, clearly they're an her he thinks it's very strange,. e very, very weird that women would be involved in warfare at all. And i guess it kind of also underlines the fact that budiga isn't just watching. She's in charge of these troops. O, even weirder. The british forces are, of course, really, you know, they've had so many victories that now they are depicted as moving jubilantly in every direction. They are kind of out of control

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