Druids: The Mystery of Celtic Priests
Documentary • TV Movie


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.
Director:
Manfred Uhlig
Status:
Released
Language:
German
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Key words:
- archeology
- scientific research
- cultural identity
- cultural studies
- druids
- celtic mythology
- cultural history
- celtic woman
- historical documentary
- archéologie
- cultural heritage
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