An Island Nation: Re-Reading Tacitus' Agricola

Clarke, Katherine

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“…Greco-Roman authors, including Appian, Strabo, Silius Italicus, Sallust, or Diodorus, provide the main textual evidence for the region. The Classical writings are tainted with otherness and alterity, following the defined political and social strategy of the Roman conquest and subsequent colonization (Clarke, 2001: 102; Laurence, 2001). In addition, most testimonies were compiled several centuries after the events; thus, the information is likely to have been modified, romanticized and/or distorted.…”

Section: An Overview Of Oppida In the Northern Mesetamentioning

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A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

Liceras‐Garrido

2022

Eur. j. archaeol

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The Late Iron Age has traditionally been portrayed as an age of swords, Celtic-patterned shields, and bronze cauldrons, a time of warfare, banquets, and raids, mostly starring male warriors. But what do we know about the rest of the population, especially women? Is it possible, based on the same data, to uncover an alternative narrative that includes women? This article focuses on the northern Meseta of Iberia, an area with a long research tradition, in which women are almost invisible in accounts of the Iron Age. Drawing on a range of archaeological and textual evidence, this study brings the roles of women to the forefront, offering a critique of traditional research discourses and a discussion on how Iron Age societies worked from a gender-inclusive perspective.

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A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

Liceras‐Garrido

2022

Eur. j. archaeol

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“…Significantly, both of these ideas -the corrosive effects of imperialism at the centre and its benefits on the colonial periphery -are established through ancient texts. For example, the idea of progressive Romanisation transforming the province of Britannia draws directly on authors such as Tacitus who characterise the island as peripheral and in need of civilisation (Clarke 2001). …”

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On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

Witcher¹

2013

Landscape History

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“…Indeed, the narrative's starting point, the historical myth of the Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious disappearance while on manoeuvres in second-century Caledonia points to the remarkable historical pervasion and persistence of the Scottish stereotype most frequently encountered within mainstream cinema. On one hand, one might note the near-contemporaneous theatrical release of another film exploring the Ninth's possible fate, The Eagle (Kevin Macdonald, GB/USA, 2011); on the other, it is perhaps worth pointing out that the first recorded construction -and ideological exploitation -of the idea of Scotland as the civilised world's northern limit dates from the period in which Centurion is set, in the account of the first-century Battle of Mons Graupius provided by the Roman historian Tacitus in his biographical work, Agricola (c. 98AD) (Clarke 2001). As we shall see, Marshall's movie attempts to ape something of both the representational content and the rhetorical elevation of such classical precedents.…”

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Give a dog a bone: representations of Scotland in the popular genre cinema of Neil Marshall

Murray

2013

Visual Studies

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Give a dog a boneCitation for published version: Murray, J 2013, 'Give a dog a bone: representations of Scotland in the popular genre cinema of Neil Marshall', Visual Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. AbstractThe best-known and most influential cinematic image of Scotland is that which constructs the country as the civilised modern world's northern boundary and ideological antithesis. This historically venerable representational tradition incorporates Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1954), Brave (Mark Andrews/Brenda Chapman/Steve Purcell, USA, 2012) and much else in between. The following essay examines what is perhaps the most explicit and extended twenty-first-century manifestation to date of Scotland's classic celluloid stereotype: the oeuvre of British popular genre filmmaker Neil Marshall. Analysis of this director's Scottish trilogy -Dog Soldiers (GB/Lux/USA, 2002), Doomsday (GB/USA/SA/Ger, 2008), and Centurion (GB/Fr, 2010) -suggests not simply the historical persistence of a particular cultural representation of a particular national culture and identity, but also the varied, and often non-nationally specific, thematic uses to which Scottish cinematic stereotypes can be and are put. That conclusion suggests a number of possible future directions for Scottish cinema criticism more generally. Firstly, the need for a more inclusive critical engagement with popular genre cinema, a hitherto under-examined area with the study of Scotland's relationship with the moving image. Secondly, the extent to which critics might usefully approach Scottish-set and -themed cinema in a more multifaceted manner than has frequently been the case in historical terms. Neil Marshall's oeuvre exemplifies the complex interplay of nationally and non-nationally specific images and ideas that exist within many popular filmic representations of Scotland.

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An Island Nation: Re-Reading Tacitus' Agricola

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

A Perspective on Late Iron Age Women in the Iberian Northern Meseta

On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

Give a dog a bone: representations of Scotland in the popular genre cinema of Neil Marshall

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