Wolfie: Background Information Inside
Wolfie
posted by Cat @ 6:47 PM
Sunday, August 08, 2004
About Me
- Name: Cat
- Location: BULLARD, Texas, United States
C.R.Myers is a Texan—born and bred in the Lone Star State. A English/Drama teacher by profession, she received her M. A. from the University of Texas at Tyler. As a teacher and professional speaker, she designed and implemented her own creative course as well as writing college sketches, which were performed on a local television station. She decided to start writing seriously only within the last few years. Since then, she has written eleven novels. Black Ice/Shadowed Road was her first published novel. Since then, Through the Shadows, Red, Red Rose, Lady’s Game, Shattered Illusion, and Blonde Logic have been published as well as nine other stories sold to area newspapers and magazines. Through her writing, she has received cards and letters from fans from all over the US and fifteen different countries. The books have sold well and the reviews have been strong, leading to seven book signings and two out of state appearances. Two of the books have been chosen as books to be presented in Austin at the Texas Book Festival.
Previous Posts
3 Comments:
The Capitoline Wolf: the totem animal of Rome. The wolf symbol now used lookes much different than the earlier one which was almost crude by our current standards.
A Little History of the Times
The Pictish tribes of ancient Britain are purported to have had the rather curious habit of going into battle stark *naked,* after painting themselves with woad (a type of blue dye). Both male and female warriors fought, side by side, in the Pictish armies. The woad made them look like ghosts to the Romans, who were equally spooked by the unfamiliar forest terrain of the British countryside.
The Picts were terrifying fighters, often fighting in pairs: the first Pict would impale himself on a Roman sword, tangling and enmeshing it, and the second Pict would finish the Roman off as the Roman's weapon was still entangled. Fierce tactics, but *very* effective. The Picts engaged in guerilla-style warfare, ambushing the Romans--who had set marching formations, etc., often going single file through the dense forests--in the dark, skeery forests. *g* The ancient peoples of Britain also had highly developed craftmen, creating beautiful and intricate items out of various metals and other materials.
The Romans were rather infamous for their orgies and other entertainments. They *really* knew how to debauch, for a people that were very orderly, otherwise. They created marvels of engineering with their colliseums, theatres, aquaducts, and road systems. A lot of modern law is based on what we inherited from the Romans. They had bloody entertainments to keep the population amused--gladiators and chariot races, among other things. They kept slaves, just as the Greeks did, and employed troops from many different nations, as well as their vaunted Roman Legions. Certain generals, like Tacitus, from which the term 'tactics' is derived, gave us some brilliant millitary advancements in strategy and warfare. I found it interesting reading Tacitus' account of the Rebellion at Boudicca, which tells of some of the ancient female Briton warriors and the Druids, as well.
My story is set around the time of Boudicca. After her husband, a wealthy land owner, her lands were supposed to be divided between her and the Roman Empire. But the Romans wanted it all so that beat her, raped her daughters, and took the land. She raised and led an army which almost ran the Romans out of Briton.
Tacitus' account of the Rebellion at Boudicca, tells of some of the ancient female Briton warriors and the Druids, as well. [Boudicca addresses her army.]
Boudicca, in a [chariot], with her two daughters before her, drove through the ranks. She harangued the different nations in their turn: "This," she said, "is not the first time that the Britons have been led to battle by a woman. But now she did not come to boast the pride of a long line of ancestry, nor even to recover her kingdom and the plundered wealth of her family. She took the field, like the meanest among them, to assert the cause of public liberty, and to seek revenge for her body seamed with ignominious stripes, and her two daughters infamously ravished. From the pride and arrogance of the Romans nothing is sacred; all are subject to violation; the old endure the scourge, and the virgins are deflowered. But the vindictive gods are now at hand. A Roman legion dared to face the warlike Britons: with their lives they paid for their rashness; those who survived the carnage of that day, lie poorly hid behind their entrenchments, meditating nothing but how to save themselves by an ignominious flight. From the din of preparation, and the shouts of the British army, the Romans, even now, shrink back with terror. What will be their case when the assault begins? Look round, and view your numbers. Behold the proud display of warlike spirits, and consider the motives for which we draw the avenging sword. On this spot we must either conquer, or die with glory. There is no alternative. Though a woman, my resolution is fixed: the men, if they please, may survive with infamy, and live in bondage."
Post a Comment
<< Home