Boudicca's legacy

Boudicca’s legacy: (rose: eva jaune: marion)

A few centuries later, after Dion, writers, artists and poets were inspired by Boudicca.

Boudica is an example to women, giving them the courage to assert their authority and strengthen their country's identity. 

Boudica is the first of a long line of women who marked history with their courage,defend their country and fight for their beliefs. 

Many poems, paintings and plays celebrate her patriotic courage. She is portrayed in films, video games and even in an episode of Xena the Warrior. 

Boudicca is portrayed as a strong woman in many artistic ways and is seen as an example of feminism: courageous, independent, leader, fearless, strong.

The poet Edmund Spencer depicted her in The Faerie Queene as a model of courage and patriotism.

In the fantasy series A Song Of Ice And Fire, the character of Daenerys Targaryen is based on Queen Boadicea. Like her, she has a deep hatred of slavery. Having assembled a powerful army, she frees the slaves and orders the death of their masters. Like Boudica, she is ruthless, not hesitating to burn cities that resist her and to massacre their inhabitants.

This proves that she is a strong feminist figure and that men are not the only ones who can be ruthless, she wanted women to be equal to men, that there should be no difference between them.

The legacy of the Roman presence in Britain lives on in our food, roads, currency and yes, plumbing. But history is also marked by women who were not cowed by the powerful, who would not be silenced — from Boudica, to Pankhurst, to Thunberg — and we are all the richer for them.

If Boudicca is almost unknown in France, it is different in England and in the Anglo-Saxon world, as a impressive feminism figure. As in France, the 19th century was the one in which the great nationalist myths were forged, through the rediscovery of great figures, elevated to the rank of national symbols by the romantic and nationalist movement.

Poems, paintings, statues… Like Vercingetorix in France or Arminius in Germany, Boudicca became a symbol of a courageous woman. 

Boudicca's rebellion may have finally failed, but she is now regarded as a modern-day heroine. Historians have pointed out how Queen Iceni was an icon of British history while at the same time being a symbol of both British freedom and female power. You can see the enduring nature of his legend through various films telling the story. In 1902, a statue of Boudicca was unveiled near the Westminster Bridge in London. It is an astonishing picture of a proud warrior standing on a war tank, holding a spear; it is a figure of fearlessness, hope and freedom, And that sums up a remarkable woman who was willing to stand up to the power of Rome and die for a cause she thought right.