Instead, the opposite happened. The widowed queen, Boudicca, was whipped and her daughters were both raped , according to the writings of Tacitus. To avenge this outrage, Boudicca waited until the ...

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in ...