When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul and destroyed the Druids, he paradoxically preserved their history by documenting it in his work 'De Bello Gallico,' creating an unintended archive of Celtic knowledge that would otherwise have been lost, as the Druids had traditionally preserved all their knowledge through oral tradition rather than writing.
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Caesar Destroyed the Druids - Then Became Their ArchiveAdded:
There's one druid whose name survived 2,000 years because [music] his enemy wrote it down.
His name was Diviciacus, a druid in Rome meeting senators.
He traveled to the heart of the Republic appealing for help against rival Gallic tribes.
Cicero himself was impressed.
The druids kept everything in their heads.
History, law, the stars, the sacred.
Nothing written, >> [music] >> nothing that could be seized.
Then Rome conquered Gaul.
And Julius Caesar began documenting the people he'd been at war with in De Bello Gallico, his account of the Gallic Wars.
Today most of what we know about the druids and about Diviciacus exists because the man destroying them wrote it into history.
Rome erased the druids, but Rome also became their archive.
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