#gallic — Public Fediverse posts

Imagining of the failed Gallic night assault foiled by the alarm of sacred geese, Sack of Rome, 390 BCE

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/1401430/imagining-of-the-failed-gallic-night-assault-foiled-by-the-alarm-of-sacred-geese-sack-o

The #Gallic #Rose can be a prolific bloomer under the right conditions.
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#FlowersOfMasotodon, #Bloomscrolling, #Gallic #Rose, #RosaGallica, #KanapahaBotanicalGardens, #Florida

Here in England the language we're most likely to learn is French, afteral, the French are our nearest neighbours.

We pay no heed to the languages of our Gallic speaking neighbours in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland.

Julie Fowlis is a Scottish Gallic singer with a beautiful voice. Here's a familiar song with unfamiliar lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MzetQfKwbE

#Gallic #Scotland #Music #MusicOfMastodon

Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar by Lionel Royer.
Two men face each other. One on horseback, the other on a throne, one young and proud, the other ambitious and in the prime of life, one Gallic, the other Roman, one defeated, another winner. Two men who made history the day after the Battle of Alesia (September 52 BC).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-vercingetorix-throws-down-his-arms-at-the-feet-of-julius-caesar-lionel-royer.html

#art #arthistory #history #Gallic #ancient #Rome #history

#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: Lugudunum Segusiavorum (today: #Lyon) was the fortress of the #Gallic god #Lug/#Lugus, who was known for his "raven sympathy". Ravens are said to have descended from heaven at the foundation of Lugudunum.
Source: Helmut Birkhan `#Kelten`
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RT @dorough_family
In Celtic lores ravens, usually shown in threes, were the companions of the war god, Lug. They were used in the battlefields to collect the spirits …
https://twitter.com/dorough_family/status/1589819886091767808

The 3rd new #ancient #history magazine I'm introducing is "The Road to #Rome", about the #Roman, #Byzantine, and #Etruscan #cultures, launching with 110 stories like:

- Succession of the #RomanEmpire

- The #Gallic Wars

- 9 facts about #JuliusCaesar

- #Spartacus was a real #gladiator

- #Commodus, the Mad #Emperor

- 2k yr old #Roman road discovery in #Britain

- #Etruscans prayed at #sacred hot springs

- #Sex in ancient Rome

- Ovid & Catullus, #poetry & #scandal

https://flipboard.com/@curiouscurator/the-road-to-rome-hsed05abz?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=curator_share

@TheDigitalGlobalCitizen @languagelovers I'm native in English, did #French and #German in high school up to 15yo.

3y ago I began #Chinese on #Duolingo; got the bug for languages now.

I crammed 3m of #Portuguese before a trip (thanks #Memrise), and also dabbled in #Spanish, #Ukrainian, #Gaelic, #Gallic, #Dutch and less so #Welsh, #Korean, #Arabic, #Hindi, #Danish and #Latin.

Relearning German now too.

I ♥️ #ProtoIndoEuropean, and the links between modern languages.