Tag: ancient rome
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“Woe to the conquered”: How the Gauls sacked Rome and the geese saved it.
In the last post, we looked at the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC. At the Allia, the Gauls and Romans met in what was to be the first of many conflicts between their peoples, culminating in Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in 50 BC. In this first battle, however, it is the Gallic…
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“All things belong to the brave”: Gauls, Romans, and the Battle of the Allia
As the Romans looked down from their fastness and saw the City full of enemies running up and down in all the streets, while first in one quarter and then in another some new calamity would be occurring, they were unable, I do not say to keep their heads, but even to be sure of…