Caitlin C. Gillespie is a Lecturer in Classics at Columbia University. She received her PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her past publications have explored the intersection between material culture and literary representations of women of the imperial household during the Julio-Claudian era.
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In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St. Albans), destroyed part of a... SEE MORE