Alexander & Druids

[lowellmcf]

What was the relationship between Alexander the Great and Celtic Druids?

[Ewood27]

None.  They never came in contact.

 

I may be wrong.  It's happened before!

[Octavius]

And it's happened again!

 

Greeks and Celts were friends and allies in the Golden Era of Celts, and waged wars together. But not a Celt was seen in Carthagianian ranks. In fact, Celtica helped in preserving the Greek sort of civilisation from Eastern despotisms, and by that helped in keeping alive freedom and humane culture in parts of Europe. [22]
       An example: When Alexander the Great was about to get into Asia with his army, he first sought to make a deal with the Celts "who dwelt by the Ionian gulf" to try to secure his Greek lands and dominions while he was away. The friend and perhaps half-brother of Alexander, Ptolemy Soter, relates that the Celtic envoys that Alexander conversed with, were haughty men of great stature, and when they were drinking with Alexander he asked them what they feared the most, they answered,
       "We fear no man; only one thing, that the sky should fall on us."
       When the envoys left, Alexander turned to his nobles and whispered,
       "What a vainglorious people." [23]

[Octavius]

The Celts were an early Indo-European people who spread over much of Europe from the 2nd millennium BC to the 1st century BC. Their tribes and groups eventually ranged from the British Isles and northern Spain to as far east as Transylvania, the Black Sea coasts, and Galatia in Anatolia. Celts were in part absorbed into the Roman Empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians.
Celtic languages survived in Celtic speakers of Ireland, Highland Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, and Brittany.  They had their ways. Not a few were not like ours.

 

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