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Oct 11, 2026
Tony RobinsonHOST
Even though he was a full-time soldier, he spent all his spare time writing up his account of his military exploits in serialized form.
Tony RobinsonHOST
A new book came out every year called The Gallic Wars.
Tony RobinsonHOST
They're classics of Latin literature, but they're also history spun like a government press release in order to enhance his reputation.
Tony RobinsonHOST
[gentle music] Ubi eum castris se tenere Caesar intellexit, rei iutus comitatu- Caesar's Gallic Wars are a monumental achievement, hundreds of pages of history written while fighting campaigns across the country, and not just written, written beautifully.
Tony RobinsonHOST
The workaholic Caesar also wrote a book on Latin grammar.
Tony RobinsonHOST
The Gallic Wars had to be an accurate account of events.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Other Roman soldiers were writing home from the front, and any outright lies would be exposed.
Tony RobinsonHOST
Instead, Caesar's interpretation of why events happened and his role in them puts him in the most favorable light.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Under the Celts, the Romans and the Franks, the region which was to become Normandy is not distinguished in any notable way from the rest of Gaul, and it has the further disadvantage of being one of the regions concerning which our knowledge is particularly scanty.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A few names of tribes in Caesar's Gallic War and in the Roman geographers, a few scattered inscriptions from the days of the Empire, a few lives of saints and now and then a rare document of Frankish times, this with the results of archaeological research constitutes the basis of early Norman history.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After all, Normandy was remote from Rome and lay apart also from the main currents of Frankish life and politics, so that we should not look here for much light on general conditions.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Nevertheless, it is in this obscure age that the foundations of Normandy were laid.
MaddieHOST
Not what you were expecting, I know.
MaddieHOST
Today's episode was supposed to be the Gallic Wars Part 2 with Rolly and Nick, but things have been a little crazy lately and our recording schedule has gone a little out of whack, but that's actually for a really good reason.
MaddieHOST
Recently, we've recorded some fantastic bonus interviews with the guys from Lost Roman Heroes, Dr. Corey Brennan from Rutgers University, and Dr. Anthony Caldellis from the University of Chicago.
MaddieHOST
Coordinating, scheduling, and preparing for these episodes took a little more time than we expected.
MaddieHOST
And since we want to make sure we're giving our regular episodes the attention they deserve, we're taking this week off.
MaddieHOST
Next Saturday, Nick and my dad will be back with the second episode of The Gallic Wars.
MaddieHOST
And trust me, things are about to get pretty intense.
MaddieHOST
Then, the following Saturday, I'll be back with my dad as we dive into the story of one of the most infamous traitors in American history, Benedict Arnold.
Connor BridgesHOST
The image of the Wicker Man, which gave the filmmakers their title, was taken from the description of the practice of human sacrifice by the Gauls in Julius
Colton JenkinsHOST
Caesar's commentaries on the Gaelic War.
Colton JenkinsHOST
And this is what...
Colton JenkinsHOST
I just think it's really funny to imagine someone who's like, what is my horror movie going to be about? And he's doing research and he just comes across sacrifice and he's like...
Connor BridgesHOST
That'd be crazy.
Connor BridgesHOST
But kind of cool that the Wicker Man was inspired by Julius Caesar.
Connor BridgesHOST
And this is the actual quote that he found from Caesar's commentaries on the Gaelic War.
Connor BridgesHOST
Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Even though he was a full-time soldier, he spent all his spare time writing up his account of his military exploits in serialized form.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
A new book came out every year called The Gallic Wars.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
They're classics of Latin literature, but they're also history spun like a government press release in order to enhance his reputation.
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Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Caesar's Gallic Wars are a monumental achievement, hundreds of pages of history written while fighting campaigns across the country, and not just written, written beautifully.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
The workaholic Caesar also wrote a book on Latin grammar.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
The Gallic Wars had to be an accurate account of events.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Other Roman soldiers were writing home from the front, and any outright lies would be exposed.
JayGUEST
It's called Order and Fury, which is like an ancient medieval rule system.
JayGUEST
And it's very focused on Caesar's Gallic Wars at the moment, but I'm about to do kind of a module for it for both War of the Ring.
JayGUEST
So kind of adding magic and a little bit more effect of the heroes into it.
JayGUEST
And for Agincourt, which is a buddy of mine has all this Agincourt stuff done.
Luis UseraHOST
Quiero entrar al bloque de Celtiberia, Roma, Numancia.
Luis UseraHOST
Eh, luego hablaremos también de la guerra de las Galias.
Luis UseraHOST
Pero, eh, por empezar definiendo también quiénes eran los celtíberos, porque hemos hablado de los celtas, estaban los íberos, estaban los celtíberos, los galos.
Luis UseraHOST
¿Quiénes eran los, los celtíberos?
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Gonzalo Ruiz ZapateroGUEST
Y tipo de creencias que nos enlazan con las que podemos hoy día tener y que practicamos.
Gonzalo Ruiz ZapateroGUEST
Nuestras raíces vienen, vienen de más lejos de lo que muchas veces imaginamos.
Luis UseraHOST
Ya estamos terminando, pero, pero si, si ves que hay alguna diferencia o, o alguna similitud entre Numancia y Alesia, que Alesia, bueno, fue el asedio decisivo también, ¿no? De, de Julio César en, en la guerra de las Galias, que no confundir con la Guerra de las Galaxias, en el, en el 51 antes de Cristo, ¿no? Que también fue, pues, eh, un asedio, ¿no? Eh, y, y obviamente la, la época, esto pasó setenta años después, ochenta años después.
Luis UseraHOST
Pero, pero bueno, ¿hubo alguna similitud o alguna diferencia?
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Under the Celts, the Romans and the Franks, the region which was to become Normandy is not distinguished in any notable way from the rest of Gaul, and it has the further disadvantage of being one of the regions concerning which our knowledge is particularly scanty.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A few names of tribes in Caesar's Gallic War and in the Roman geographers, a few scattered inscriptions from the days of the Empire, a few lives of saints, and now and then a rare document of Frankish times, this with the results of archaeological research constitutes the basis of early Norman history.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After all, Normandy was remote from Rome and lay apart also from the main currents of Frankish life and politics, so that we should not look here for much light on general conditions.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Nevertheless, it is in this obscure age that the foundations of Normandy were laid.
Kyle ThompsonHOST
Maybe you're into the French and Indian War.
Kyle ThompsonHOST
Maybe you're going all the way back to the Greek Wars or the Gaelic Wars or any of those types of things, getting a little bit closer to understanding.
Kyle ThompsonHOST
I remember reading through the book of Matthew Just somebody mentioning, hey, he was writing to a mainly Jewish audience.
Kyle ThompsonHOST
Oh my gosh, like it just opened up what I was reading so much more because it wasn't just the words on the page.
Joe ManaseHOST
6,000 full or partial manuscripts in the New Testament.
Joe ManaseHOST
Just to give you some context of numerical numbers, of Julius Caesar's Gaelic Wars, that was from Germany and Britain.
Joe ManaseHOST
They're there's only five manuscripts available.
Joe ManaseHOST
Of Aristotle's poetics that many people quote and read, there's three manuscripts.
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