Tag: Tacitus

  • Caratacus, Caradog, Caractacus

    Caratacus, Caradog, Caractacus

    If Calgacus might be thought of as the earliest known anti-imperialist Scotland has produced, Wales has some claim on an earlier native leader of resistance to the Roman occupation of Britain, Caratacus. He’s a figure well worth excavating, as an historical character and as a focus of myth-making in the centuries since his time. 1         …