Druids... did they or didn't they...

[ufkacbln]

i stand corrected... it was Duncan:

Not sure Duncan is any better!

 

[ufkacbln]

Perhaps it was not so much that the druids were a threat to the Romans that provoked them to persecute them, but that they just got on their tits.

Does that make Ms Goodbody a Druid, after all some say she is a fantasy and she certainly has her knockers

 

[MontyVeda]

Julius Caesar bigged them up in his self aggrandising 'The Conquest of Gaul'. As he did the by then old fashioned war chariots used by the Ancient British. As has been said earlier in the thread Suetonius made mention of them in the later Claudian invasion of Britain. How important they were we'll probably never know but they certainly existed, however I suspect that modern 'Druids' have little more than the name in common with those of 2000 years ago.

We know they existed, the question is Did they exist as a powerful ruling class? ...as some 'experts' claim.
My answer is... it depends if you're optimistic or pessimistic regarding the limited available evidence

 

[byegad]

Perhaps it was not so much that the druids were a threat to the Romans that provoked them to persecute them, but that they just got on their tits.

That may be it. They were the Ancient equivalent of the Jehova's Witnesses, forever wanting to spread good news!

 

[tyred]

That may be it. They were the Ancient equivalent of the Jehova's Witnesses, forever wanting to spread good news!

Jehovah's Witnesses spread good news?

 

[byegad]

Jehovah's Witnesses spread good news?

Yes, at least that's what the last pair said as I slammed the door in their faces.