![]() The hybrid Celtic-Roman goddess Sulis Minerva suggests multicultural roots, presiding over the kind of watery place long held sacred by the ancient Britons, now vamped up by Roman technology and new habits of leisure and grooming. The indigenous Iceni and their queen Boudicca demonstrate island pluckiness, exhibit nationalist zeal or head an anticolonial movement when they go on the rampage against Roman occupation. The Romans in Britain stand in, ironically, for the British and their empire, with its civilizing mission and a healthy dose of force and might: a collage of Hadrian's Wall, the grid plan of Camulodunum (modern Colchester) and a mosaic Cupid riding on a dolphin at Fishbourne Palace. ![]() The first is its status as origin myth, complicated and contradictory as such myths inevitably are. ![]() Martin Millett, Louise Revell and Alison Moore, editorsĩ44pp. ![]()
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