Boadicea was the queen of the Iken and other British tribes.
She led a rebellion against the Roman occupiers in Britain in 60 and 61 during the reign of Emperor Nero, in which 70,000 Romans were killed. However, the rebellion was still crushed, and Boadicea committed suicide.
A fascinating autobiographical collage - The Book of Witold Gombrowicz. Through excerpts from diaries, letters and interviews, the work provides an intimate and unsparing insight into the writer's life, thought, art and eternal struggle with form.
Fraktura, 2014.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
A fascinating historical study by Dutch classical philologist Fik Meijer explores the fates of Roman emperors, revealing that most of them met violent deaths on the battlefield or from assassination.