A sculpture, depicting the Brennus who led the attack on Rome, that adorned an 18th or 19th century French naval vessel

Brennus is the name of two Celtic chieftains famous in ancient history: Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 504 KB)A sculpture of Brennus from a French naval ship, by unknown 19th or 18th century French artist, showcased at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia, photographed by DONeil. ... Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 504 KB)A sculpture of Brennus from a French naval ship, by unknown 19th or 18th century French artist, showcased at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia, photographed by DONeil. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Celtic cross. ...

The sack of Rome

In 387 BC, in the Battle of the Allia an army of Cisalpine Gauls attacked Rome, led by one Brennus (a chieftain of the Senones of the adriatic coast of italy), capturing all of the city except for the Capitoline Hill, which was successfully held against them. However, seeing their city devastated, the Romans attempted to buy their salvation from Brennus. They agreed to pay one thousand pounds weight of gold, but Brennus had it weighed on scales he had tampered with. According to legend, during a dispute over the accuracy of the weights used to measure the ransom of gold Brennus demanded, he threw his sword upon the scales and uttered the famous quote "Vae victis", which translates to "woe be to the conquered". Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC - 380s BC - 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC Years: 392 BC 391 BC 390 BC 389 BC 388 BC - 387 BC - 386 BC 385 BC... The Battle of the Allia was a battle of the first Gallic invasion of Italy. ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... Piazza del Campidoglio, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façade of Palazzo Senatorio. ... Vae victis is Latin for Woe to the conquered. In 390 BC, an army of Gauls led by Brennus attacked Rome, capturing all of the city except for the Capitoline Hill, which was successfully held against them. ...

Before he could kill the Romans for their audacity in accusing him of cheating, the exiled dictator Marcus Furius Camillus appeared with an army, and refused to allow him to take the gold. In an initial battle through Rome's streets, the Gauls were ejected from the city, and in a second battle away from the city, Camillus slaughtered the invaders, earning the title of the Second Founder of Rome, for saving the city. Marcus Furius Camillus (circa 446- 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent. ...

The invasion of Greece

In 279 BC, another army of Celts led by another Brennus invaded Macedonia and northern Greece. He turned the Greek defense at the pass of Thermopylae, and sacked Delphi, where he was wounded. He then penetrated into Epirus and sacked the treasures of the temples of Zeus at Dodona and Olympia. Facing determined Greek resistance, he withdrew to Macedonia, dying from his wound. Without him, his people split. Some of them crossed the Bosporus and settled in a part of Asia Minor that came to be called Galatia, while some settled in Thrace, founding a short-lived city-state named Tylis. The others returned to their homelands in Gaul, keeping in trust the treasures of Brennus' campaign. Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC - 270s BC - 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 284 BC 283 BC 282 BC 281 BC 280 BC - 279 BC - 278 BC 277 BC 276... Thermopylae (Ancient & Katharevousa Greek Θερμοπύλαι, Demotic Θερμοπύλες) is a mountain pass in Greece. ... The theatre, seen from above Delphi (Greek Δελφοί - Delphoi; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece. ... This article is about the broad geographical and historical region of Epirus, spanning Greece and Albania. ... Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ... At Dodona (ancient Greek: Δοδώνη, modern Dodoni, Albanian: Dodona) in Epirus, northwestern Greece, was a prehistoric oracle devoted to the Greek god, Zeus and the Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione. ... Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympía or Ολύμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a city of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ... Bosporus - photo taken from International Space Station. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... For the Greek name for Gaul, see Gaul Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia (now Turkey). ... Thrace (Greek Θρᾴκη, ThrákÄ“, Bulgarian Тракия, Trakija, Turkish Trakya; Latin: Thracia or Threcia) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece (Western Thrace), and European Turkey. ... Tylis was short-lived city-state founded by the Celts lead by Comontorios in what is now Eastern Bulgaria in the 3rd century BC, after their invasion of 280 BC. The part of the Celts that did not settle in Tylis, crossed into Asia Minor to become known as the...

Etymology

The name Brennus is likely a title rather than a proper name. Probably meaning "courageous, zealous, intense", it is the Old Celtic word from which is derived the Brythonic Celtic word "Brenin", which means King. In AD 69, when the Canninefates at the mouth of the Rhine joined in the Batavian uprising, they were led by "a certain Brinno, a man of a certain stolid bravery and of distinguished birth. His father, after venturing on many acts of hostility, had scorned with impunity the ridiculous expedition of Caligula. His very name, the name of a family of rebels, made him popular. Raised aloft on a shield after the national fashion, and balanced on the shoulders of the bearers, he was chosen general" (Tacitus, Histories, IV [1]). The Brythonic languages (or Brittonic languages) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family. ... Look up monarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A monarch (see sovereign) is a type of ruler or head of state. ... Canninefates or Canenefatae comes from Canene (Latin: onion) and fatae (Latin: lords). ... The Batavii (or Batavi, Batavians) were a Germanic, or possibly Celtic tribe reported by Julius Caesar and Tacitus to have lived around the Rhine delta, in the area which is currently the Netherlands. ... Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from 37 to 41. ... Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. ...

Likewise, Bran the Blessed is King of Britain in the Mabinogion. Bran the Blessed (aka Bendigeidfran) was a character in Welsh mythology, a son of Llyr and Penarddun, who appears in the Mabinogion. ... The Mabinogion is a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts. ...

Geoffrey of Monmouth also writes in his Historia Regum Britanniae about a personage named "Brennius" who conquers Rome. He probably created this character from the two Brenni of history. Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. ... Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniæ (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) was written around 1136. ... Brennius was a legendary king of Northumberland and Allobroges as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. ...

In 1530 the Duke of Norfolk, arguing Tudor claims to imperial status, told the Imperial ambassador Eustache Chapuys that an "Englishman" called Brennus, the founder of Bristol, had conquered Rome (Thomas Healy, Times Literary Supplement 24 June 2005 p 25, reviewing Philip Schwyzer, Literature Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales, Cambridge, 2005). This looks like a recollection of Geoffrey's "Brennius". Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. ...

In modern day France, the team winning the French rugby league is offered a trophy called "Le Bouclier de Brennus" or Brennus's Shield.

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