Asterix is a British cartoon character...I've not seen it before however, Professor Stephen Oppenheimer compliments the author for his exactness to detail in his book, Origins Of The British.
I just ordered 15 Axtrix books today. Just for my 12 year old son. Well maybe I read a few too.
1. Druids were priests not gods. They were not worshiped but honored.
2. Romans believed in magic potions too.
3. Asterix is a comic book character.
Asterix is a British cartoon character...I've not seen it before however, Professor Stephen Oppenheimer compliments the author for his exactness to detail in his book, Origins Of The British.
I had always heard of their sophisticated metalwork, chariots, etc. and their mania for fashion and hygiene, but I thought everyone was agreed that they built exclusively in wood and thatch.
Now if they could rediscover the formula to that legendary potion...
Leave it to Historius Revisionix to ruin all our fun.
Of course the Gauls were a strong, civilized people. It’s only in the last century that the French have become weak, smelly, cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Hasn’t this been known since the 19th century? The Gauls were much more sophisticated than other barbarians in Europe at the time. They had a thriving agriculture, could field massive armies, kept up good communications under the Roman assault, had large towns with sophisticated wooden defensive systems (sadly for the Gauls, they had few stone defensive structures), etc.
A French Asterix in the footnotes of history........
...archaeologists now believe the Gauls lived in elegant buildings with tiled roofs, laid out in towns with public squares or forums. They also crafted metalwork just as complex as anything produced by the Romans, even before the Roman invasion in 52BC.I smell the distinctive odor of BS.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/vercingetorix
http://www.the-romans.co.uk/julius.htm#alesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia
http://cultureetloisirs.france2.fr/patrimoine/dossiers/15922193-fr.php?page=12
http://www.answers.com/topic/battle-of-alesia
“At one point in the battle the Romans were outnumbered by the Gauls by five to one. The event is described by several contemporary authors, including Caesar himself in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico... The refusal of the Roman senate to allow Caesar the honour of a triumph for his victory in the Gallic Wars eventually led, in part, to the Roman civil war of 50–45 BC.”
Mark