 Prose ~ Druides
Julius Caesar encountered the Druids during his conquest of Gaul from 58 to 49 BC. They were priests recruited mainly from the nobility and they were the only men powerful enough to organise opposition to Roman rule throughout the Celtic tribes. |
| Power, education & religion | Page 160 |
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| | Caesar, Gallic War VI.13-16 extracts
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| The Druids' last stand | Page 164 |
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| | Tacitus, Annals XIV.29-30 extracts |
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| | Pliny, Natural History XVI.249-51 extracts |
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| The Celts:
Among the greatest people of European history, the people we call the Celts were not a single group of people, speaking one language, sharing exactly the same customs, and who called themselves "Celts".
Instead, these peoples - whose lands stretched through Spain, France, Britain, Ireland, southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Czech Republic and later into northern Italy, the Balkans and even central Turkey - were diverse in many respects. For instance, their kingdoms ranged from small tribal chiefdoms to huge regional superpowers; their houses were round in Britain but square in Gaul; and there were at least 5 main variants of the Celtic language (from which Irish, Scots Gaelic and Welsh are derived).
However, their common languages do define these people and the most satisfactory definition of "Celts" is "people who spoke one of the Celtic languages".
For general links on Celts in Britain, see:
> Celtic Britain
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