Apparently, Boudicca's life ended with suicide. She got beaten by Roman army and got flogged a second time. This upset her so much that she took poison. Why didn't they show that?
sharebecause it's not confirmed that that's wat happened...no one knows because there wasn't much writitng back then...
shareYeah this was quite likely roman propoganda. As was the accounts of the fall of london to Boudica's army, where they supposedly took the women and sowed their severed breasts into their mouths. Historians are sceptical about this and the second flogging/suicide.
shareIt's very unlikly that Boudicca was captured after her defeat if she was captured she would definatly have been the subject of some writing as she would have been subjected to every torture the romans could think of and they wouldnt keep it secret it would be well publisised just like anyone else who led a rebellion on this scale
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Ok well first of all I've been doing research on this topic and from what I can tell, Boudicca took poison after the treaty signing. She wanted to die rather than have the Roman parade her around Rome.
shareTacitus claimed she took poison--when writing about her twenty years after the revolt. When he wrote about the revolt immediately afterward, he didn't mention her committing suicide. Historically speaking, accounts written closer to the time of the event are usually more reliable than ones written decades or centuries later, including by the same person.
Dio Cassius claims she just got sick and died.
In other words, as with Spartacus and his dying-in-battle-with-the-body-never-found ending, the Romans probably didn't actually know what happened to her and assumed she died because the revolt ended and she disappeared from the story.
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