REVIEW – A fascinating book on Gallic civilization and its place in the ancient world.
The Druids have long been perceived as legendary figures who, dressed all in white and picking mistletoe, uttered esoteric sentences under an ancestral oak tree to these Gallic peoples who were as immature as they were foreign to rational thought. In The City of Druids. Builders of ancient Gaul, Jean-Louis Brunaux puts an end to this stereotype for comics. Author, a few years ago, of a noted book The Druids. Philosophers among the barbarians (Threshold), he does it again with this new essay, which delves deeper into the nature of the relationship between the Celtic world and ancient Greece. “The Druids learned a lot from their proximity to the Greeks, this seems to be a given. But what was the nature of this link? Therein lies the fundamental question.”
For Brunaux, archaeologist of the “Gallic civilization”, which he has studied for decades, there is little doubt that the Druids were influenced by the theory of metempsychosis of Pythagoras, but also by…
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