It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast

we are continuing the story of Budica with Professor Katslin Gillespie. Now in the first

part of this podcast we focused on the outbreak of Budica's uprising and also looking into

Budica's character how she is portrayed in the surviving Roman sources particularly

through some astonishing speeches. Now we're continuing the story we're going to be looking at

the end of Budica's revolt we're going to be looking at Budica's legacy and how her portrayal

compares to that of other prominent women from Roman history. Without further ado here's Katslin.

Do we have any other British queens around this time in ancient history that we can use as

possible comparison to Budica? We have a negative model so amongst the bergante's who are

found the western side of Britain. We have a woman called Cartamandua who was a leader and is

identified actually as a queen so none of our Roman sources call Budica a regina. She is a dukes

femina. She's a female general. They call this woman a regina right so an actual queen. She for

various reasons who knows was not the most morally upright of women and took up with her husband's

steward and then divorced her husband and had all of his family killed and so he kind of rises

up against her and the bergante's side with him but Cartamandua is another client region of Rome

so she actually has the Roman army on her side so she calls on the Roman army to help her out

and is able at least initially to defeat her ex-husband and regain this composite Roman local

rule so she's a very negative model that we have as a comparison we don't have a lot of other

women who are mentioned in our texts as being queens or female generals certainly in this region.

So we've got to just before this big expectant matter we've had the pre-battle speeches but

it doesn't go exactly too well for Budica. No the Romans are very well trained in how to negotiate

various types of battle situations. They have a number of different kinds of troops at their

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