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The Gallic Women: Episode from the Roman Invasion (1851) by Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize. The Gallic Women: Episode from the Roman Invasion (French: Les Femmes Gauloises: épisode de l'invasion romaine) is a painting by Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize, from 1851. It is a very large oil on canvas work, with a height of 424 cm and a width of 651 cm.
The Gallic Wars [a] were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, and Switzerland). Gallic , Germanic , and Brittonic tribes fought to defend their homelands against an aggressive Roman campaign .
The Helvetii, a confederation of Gallic tribes, had begun a total migration of its peoples in March of 58 BC. This alarmed the Romans and began the Gallic Wars. [2]Julius Caesar was the governor of Transalpine Gaul, and by the time of battle had between 24,000 and 30,000 legionary troops, and some quantity of auxiliaries, many of whom were Gauls themselves.
After the war, Rome took Bononia (196 BC), [37] [38] Placentia (194 BC), [39] [40] [36] and Mutina (193 BC). [ 41 ] [ 42 ] According to Strabo, many of the surviving Boii retreated north across the Alps to the land subsequently known as Boihaemum , [ 43 ] but in all probability the region was already inhabited by Boii prior to their subjugation ...
Appian wrote about the wars between Rome and the Gauls in Italy and Gaul and Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul (Gallic Wars 1, 2, and 3 of his Roman History). However, his work has survived only in fragments which are often short and sometimes do not shed enough light on events.
A Gallic warrior dressed in Roman lorica hamata with a cloak over it.Wearing a torc around his neck, he also wields a Celtic-style shield although the proportions of the body and the overall realism are more in line with Classical and Roman art than with the Celtic depictions of soldiers.
In all, the nine graves on the 3.2-acre site show the skeletons of 28 horses, all buried roughly 2,000 years ago. Located in Villedieu-sur-Indre in central France, that first pit offered up the ...
The Ludovisi Gaul (sometimes called "The Galatian Suicide") is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dead body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a now lost Greek bronze original. The Ludovisi Gaul can be found today in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. This statue is unique ...