Druids: The Mystery of Celtic Priests
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2021-06-05
Runtime: 53 mins
Director: Manfred Uhlig
Writer: Manfred Uhlig
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Documentary, History
Original title: Druids: The Mystery of Celtic Priests
Production Companies: ZDF
Production Countries: Germany
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