Just watched the 'Boudica' video from historia civilis youtube channel, and am curious about whether the primus pilas who refused his orders to reinforce the main army suffer any repercussions for his inaction. Also bonus question on repercussions on Iceni people after their defeat?
You mean Poenius Postumus, right? From Tacitus's Annales: "Poenius Postumus too, camp-prefect of the second legion, when he knew of the success of the men of the fourteenth and twentieth, feeling that he had cheated his legion out of like glory, and had contrary to all military usage disregarded the general's orders, threw himself on his sword."
As for what happened to the Iceni in the immediate aftermath of the uprising, Tacitus says there was a 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.” Suetonius Paulinus also seems to have acted with great brutality in the aftermath of the battle, ravaging the rebellious tribes with “fire and sword.” (This presumably did not help with the famine) Although Tacitus is sympathetic to him, Suetonius’s actions were evidently excessive, because Nero had to find an excuse to replace him with someone who “having neither the anger of an enemy nor the pride of a conqueror, would deal mercifully with those who had surrendered.”
This is the most recent topic about Boudica. Is there any recommended books about her?