Osher History Ireland Scotland Wales 1d
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Celtic migrations into the Mediterranean world—Greeks record them as “Keltoi”, Romans refer to them as “Gauls”Migration begins in the early La Tene era, 400-200 BC
Maps from Barry Cunliffe’s The Ancient Celts
Celts in Macedon and Greece
Celts in Asia Minor—the Galatians
The Dying Gaul, 3rd century BCCapitoline Museum, Rome
Celtic warrior and wife, 3rd century BCMuseo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.Bust c. late 1st century BC, Vienna Museum of Art History
• Julius Caesar made proconsul of Gaul, 59-51 BC
• Arverni tribe and Vercingetorix
• Battle of Alesia, 52 BC• Gaul largely conquered
by 51 BC; ruled by Rome until 480s AD.
Vercingetorix statue at Alesia, created 1865 by Aimé Millet. Vercingetorix coin, circa mid-1st century BC
The Roman Conquest of BritainMap from Nora Chadwick, The Celts.
• Catuvellauni– Cassivellaunus, fl. 54 BC– Cunobelinus, fl. 42 AD– Caratacus, fl. 50 AD
• Iceni– Prasutagus, d. 61 AD– Boudicca, d. 61 AD
• Brigantes– Cartimandua, fl. 50-70 AD
• Boudica’s revolt, 61 AD– Burned Colchester, London,
and St. Albans• Britain “settled” by 84 AD;
ruled by Rome until 409 AD
Boudica statue, by Thomas Thornycroft, 1905, near Houses of Parliament, London.
Silver coin associated with Boudica and Iceni tribe, mid-1st century AD