Three Towns Forum
The Local => What's On => Topic started by: Llechwedd on June 11, 2011, 11:53:53 am
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There will be a series of events as part of the archaeology festival at the end of July.
Sat 16 What have the Romans done for us? - family fun day etc. Llandudno Museum 10 - 4 & Wed. 20th and Sun 24th
Sat 16 to 31st Roman Rhythms Llanrwst Almshouses.
Wed 20 - Fri 22 & Wed 27 to Fri 29th Graig Lwyd Axe Factory. New York Cottages, Bangor Road, Penmaenmawr 2p.m. to 4p.m.
Sat 30th 11 to 2p.m. Playing with fire - the Bronze age. Gt. orme mines
Please contact the places direct for further information.
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Thanks for the information, Llechwedd. It all sounds interesting.
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I'm looking forward to the Roman Rhythms, sounds like a fab group! Hope their music is as good as their name. $thanx$
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What have the Romans done for us?
Well, not a lot.
They invaded the country, killed off the Druids, built a big wall to separate the northern tribes they could not subdue, built roads without any bends, and made a foreign language - Latin THE official language.
Give me the Victorians any day.
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What's the Latin for bollocks?!!!
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Testiculos ;D
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Latin_word_for_bollocks (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Latin_word_for_bollocks)
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What's the Latin for bollocks?!!!
I'm not sure. Maybe Boudicca Queen of the Iceni tribe saw lots of them as she was watching her daughters being raped by Roman soldiers.
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She gave as good as she got and beat them as her husband had been murdered. Great Queen.
Grosse teste?
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Grosse teste?
Oh yes. 8)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica)
Boudica's husband Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni tribe who had ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor in his will. However, when he died, his will was ignored. The kingdom was annexed as if conquered, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans.
In AD 60 or 61, while the Roman governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, Boudica led the Iceni people, along with the Trinovantes and others, in revolt. They destroyed Camulodunum (modern Colchester), formerly the capital of the Trinovantes, but now a colonia (a settlement for discharged Roman soldiers) and the site of a temple to the former emperor Claudius, which was built and maintained at local expense. They also routed a Roman legion, the IX Hispana, sent to relieve the settlement.
On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium (London), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels' next target. Concluding he did not have the numbers to defend it, Suetonius evacuated and abandoned it. It was burnt to the ground, as was Verulamium (St Albans). An estimated 70,000–80,000 people were killed in the three cities (though the figures are suspect). Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces in the West Midlands, and despite being heavily outnumbered, defeated the Britons in the Battle of Watling Street. The crisis caused the emperor Nero to consider withdrawing all Roman forces from the island, but Suetonius' eventual victory over Boudica secured Roman control of the province. Boudica then killed herself so she would not be captured, or fell ill and died; Tacitus and Dio differ.
The history of these events, as recorded by Tacitus and Cassius Dio, was rediscovered during the Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her 'namesake'.
$happy$
Boudica has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom. The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.