Primus Pilus Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 Norfolk acted as a hub of resistance against Roman occupation, new analysis of archaeological finds has revealed. But the empire's military might eventually eclipsed native East Anglians in a brutal crackdown described as a "lost holocaust". A sprawling Celtic 'proto-city', as significant to its Iceni occupants as modern-day London, sprawled across eight square miles of West Norfolk, almost certainly providing a regular home to Boudicca.... Full article @ Megalithic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favonius Cornelius Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 This is another example of using terminology to slant against the Romans (lost holocaust). I wonder if the Celtic spread across and over indigenous peoples through Europe, or their destruction of the Etruscans is a lost holocaust. Or what of Germanic incursions into Celtic lands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted July 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 It's sensationalism at its finest really. Boudicca has always maintained some sort of fascination as a great liberator and hence she is generally given the heroic treatment. Despite her brutal slaughter of civilians the Roman 'atrocities' are the only ones remembered. Its the oppressor state vs. the oppressed syndrome really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callaecus Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 This is indeed sensationalism. However, it must be noted that "holocaust" only has became a dirty word after WW2. The truth is that genocide was and is regularly done in order to get rid once and for all of some die-hard enemies. And the truth is that the Romans did a number of them, such as against the Cathaginians and the Helvetians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 It sounds to me as if the reporter is trying to appeal to modern minds with the use of phrases such as 'ancient anti-golbalization town' 'Holocaust' etc. I suppose its harmless, in the same way that some people would use the term "Weapons of mass destruction of the Bronze age" to describe chariots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotWotius Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Norfolk acted as a hub of resistance against Roman occupation, new analysis of archaeological finds has revealed. But the empire's military might eventually eclipsed native East Anglians in a brutal crackdown described as a "lost holocaust". A sprawling Celtic 'proto-city', as significant to its Iceni occupants as modern-day London, sprawled across eight square miles of West Norfolk, almost certainly providing a regular home to Boudicca.... Full article @ Megalithic Knowing that Norfolk felt the full brunt of Roman military might is nothing new; Tacitus brushed on the aftermath of the Boudican revolt: 'The allied infantry and cavalry were placed in new winter quarters, and whatever tribes still wavered or were hostile were ravaged with fire and sword. Nothing however distressed the enemy so much as famine, for they had been careless about sowing corn, people of every age having gone to the war, while they reckoned on our supplies as their own.' -Tacitus Annals, XIV, 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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