Celts and Alexander the Great - How Did They Meet? #shorts

Following Alexander the Great’s conquest at the lower Danube, the Celtic tribes sent emissaries in 335 BC to negotiate a treaty of friendship and hospitality with the young Macedonian leader, who has so far been charging one successful battle after the next.

Strabo relays the account of Ptolemy, Alexander’s companion: The Celts who dwell on the Adriatic came to Alexander for the purpose of making a treaty of friendship and mutual hospitality, and that the king received them in a friendly way, and asked them, while drinking, what might be the chief object of their dread, supposing that they would say it was he; but that they replied, it was no man, only they felt some alarm lest the sky should fall on them, but that they valued the friendship of such a man as him above everything.
These examples sufficiently manifest the open sincerity of the barbarians…

Another delegation was received by Alexander in Babylon 323 BC. Coins with the image of Alexander and his father Philip were very popular among Celtic chiefdoms and the Celts based their own coins on their examples.

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[shymebc]

Celts: “we cool?”

Alexander: “we cool”🍻

[christianfreedom-seeker]

They were being diplomatic 😆 they knew Alexander of Macedon would make a better friend than an enemy.

[coolbricks]

Celtic culture had a very strong emphasis on hospitality, guests were to be treated with utmost respect.

[Twirlingbarbie]

It's weird how Alexander sometimes came over as a fucking psycho and then a week later was like yoooo bro's

[paulclissold]

Nixon said it best.
Once youve got em by the balls their hearts and minds follow. Hey kevin.

[Cato-yj]

He said
"What do you three fear"
They replied
"We fear no man"

[georgepapatheofilou]

My mother RIP still called France Gaelia . Turkiye capital Ankara was a Gaelic city . Nice to know that the Gaelic language still exists .

[VlxWIZzZARDxlV]

Love from U.S to Greece and Celtic nations. 🫶🤝

[moon-mansmusicartworks]

I'm an ancestor of the Celts and this is very interesting. I never knew the Celts had contact with Alexander the Great. 👍

[JIMMYBUSHIDO]

And they are still top of the league 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[mmaa]

Well, barbarians, in general, are usually brave and sincere, nothing weird about it, coz they haven't been corrupted by civilisation

[wankawanka]

Alexander dies
Celts: it's free real estate

[MegaTang]

So that's were that asterix joke came from

[josephphoenix]

Celts used to be much more widespread 🤔

[Monkeybomb]

Up in the Isles and mainly in Ireland.. There are still places that speak only celtic like the Aaron Islands or certain towns or most of Kerry... It is still taught as a subject over here and to become a Gardi ( Police Officer ) you need to speak at least a bit of it.. Although alot of Irelands culture is slowly being replaced by foreigners who couldn't care less about the language or culture and prefer to preserve their own, which is fair..

[OntheLAMRomans]

Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals, would later conquer Egypt and establish his own dynasty in Egypt. The Greeks ruled Egypt for hundreds of years. The last pharaoh was Cleopatra the 7th. She was a descendant of General Ptolemy.

[mtballa]

Maybe the Celts just didn't wanna get in his way lol. I'm assuming the Celts were the Galatians in Anatolia?

[dexter]

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[iggy]

I like Adriatic and 1300 island and rocks. My town is on Adriatic coast. Old town. 880b.c.
Hallo ftom Zadar-Croaria-Adriatic sea coast

[jameslingo]

That s true I ve seen coins of Danube s Celts imitating thé Alexander s tetradrachms