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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
(12-03-2015, 11:17 AM)Renatus Wrote: Assuming the revolt began in AD60 would seem to put the beginning of his governorship back a year

We don't know when Paulinus became governor, or the date of his consulship. He could have arrived in March 58 and had summer 58 and 59 as his two successful years.

Nothing in the other sources would contradict this interpretation, and it's the one that Webster et al follow, I think.


(12-03-2015, 11:17 AM)Renatus Wrote: the Loeb translation renders the passage as 'who by now had laid down his consulate', which says no more than that Turpilianus was no longer consul... could even mean that Turpilianus' governorship did not begin until sometime in AD62.

That's good to know. Kevin Carroll ('The Date of Boudicca's Revolt', Britannia 10, 1979) also thinks Turpilianus arrived in 62, after a revolt in 61, for the same reason.

Frontinus de Aquis 102 mentions that Turpilianus became curator of the aqueducts in Rome in AD63. So an appointment in Britain in mid 61 might be plausible, although he obviously wasn't in office long either way.



(12-03-2015, 11:17 AM)Renatus Wrote: Do we know that, at this time, crops were planted in spring and winter?

Diodorus Siculus quotes Hecateus, writing in the 6th century BC, that in Britain "the soil is very rich, and very fruitful, and the climate is temperate, insomuch as there are two crops in the year" (2.47).


I am aware, by the way, that if the revolt was in the autumn my idea about the Iceni having to head home to do the planting or harvesting would no longer stand - and that was (for me, at least) a major support for the 'northern route'...
Nathan Ross
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Re: Calling all armchair generals! - by Ensifer - 03-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-18-2012, 06:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 12:02 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 02:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 05:40 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 11:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 05:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 09:42 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 10:10 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:25 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 08:36 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-27-2012, 01:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 02:24 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-07-2014, 02:18 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-08-2014, 01:50 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-11-2014, 02:03 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-18-2014, 07:54 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-20-2014, 02:37 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-25-2014, 08:29 AM
RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 12-03-2015, 01:32 PM

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