Druids: The Mystery of Celtic Priests (2021)
Documentary · History
Overview
Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern Balkans to Ireland. Their cultural achievements were equal in almost every way to those of the Romans and Greeks: They could read and write and spoke Greek and Latin - for centuries, they were the powerful elite of their culture. Only one single Druid is known by name to history: Diviciacos - an aristocrat of the Aedui and personal friend of Julius Caesar. Diviciacos was a politician, a judge and a diplomat, but he lived at a time when the Celtic lands of Gaul were conquered by the Romans. Greek and Roman contemporaries distrusted the actions of this forbear of the famous comic book druid Getafix: They imagined him in bloody rituals in somber woods.
Similar Movies
- Le monde de Khéops
- Hochelaga, Land of Souls
- Caligula with Mary Beard
- Edgar Morin, chronique d'un regard
- The Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy
- 33 Days of Utopia
- Aku-Aku
- What Killed the Roman Empire?
- The Tomb of the Scythian Prince
- The old
- Le mystère Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte
- Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes