Angry Britons
Dec. 18th, 2004 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetSome of you have already seen this elsewhere.
I was looking up various "women in Tacitus" things on google (and I don't recommend googling images of, e.g., Messalina while at work). So one resulting question is, what is up with this Boudicca here? (Cleavage warning.) It's especially ridiculous(*) given the description quoted from Dio(**) just below it.
Imagine two Roman soldiers at Colchester:
Miles I: Eheu, perimus! Illa barbara vere furere videtur!
Miles II: Quomodo discernere potes?
Miles I: E medicamine labrorum spadici!
Soldier 1: Oh no! We're screwed! That barbarian chick sure looks enraged!
Soldier 2: How can you tell?
Soldier 1: It's the brown lip-liner!
But perhaps this is not quite how I should be engaging with the material.
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(*) As are some of the "facts" on the site, although it's confusing that the author seems to know some obscure things while getting some basic stuff really wrong.
(**)The historian, although others have pointed out the obvious heavy metal connection, given the picture.
I was looking up various "women in Tacitus" things on google (and I don't recommend googling images of, e.g., Messalina while at work). So one resulting question is, what is up with this Boudicca here? (Cleavage warning.) It's especially ridiculous(*) given the description quoted from Dio(**) just below it.
Imagine two Roman soldiers at Colchester:
Miles I: Eheu, perimus! Illa barbara vere furere videtur!
Miles II: Quomodo discernere potes?
Miles I: E medicamine labrorum spadici!
Soldier 1: Oh no! We're screwed! That barbarian chick sure looks enraged!
Soldier 2: How can you tell?
Soldier 1: It's the brown lip-liner!
But perhaps this is not quite how I should be engaging with the material.
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(*) As are some of the "facts" on the site, although it's confusing that the author seems to know some obscure things while getting some basic stuff really wrong.
(**)The historian, although others have pointed out the obvious heavy metal connection, given the picture.
