Caesar Destroyed the Druids - Then Became Their Archive

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]There's one druid whose name survived 2,000 years because [music] his enemy wrote it down.

[00:00:06]His name was Diviciacus, a druid in Rome meeting senators.

[00:00:12]He traveled to the heart of the Republic appealing for help against rival Gallic tribes.

[00:00:17]Cicero himself was impressed.

[00:00:20]The druids kept everything in their heads.

[00:00:23]History, law, the stars, the sacred.

[00:00:26]Nothing written, >> [music] >> nothing that could be seized.

[00:00:29]Then Rome conquered Gaul.

[00:00:32]And Julius Caesar began documenting the people he'd been at war with in De Bello Gallico, his account of the Gallic Wars.

[00:00:39]Today most of what we know about the druids and about Diviciacus exists because the man destroying them wrote it into history.

[00:00:47]Rome erased the druids, but Rome also became their archive.