
Episode III - Caesar and Gaul
Emperors of Rome
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Caesar's War With the Gauls
A large part of the ethnography came in book six is there evidence that his view changed through the books on how he perceived the Gaelic people to be? There is but I think you have to infer it. He talks about the Gomani a lot actually as barbarians and uses the Latin word barbarous a lot for them they're more civilized under Roman rule than before. It could be a coincidence he just doesn't happen to use the word there but I think that is actually a message that they're sliding under Roman rule and therefore becoming more civilized. What does his book say about his fighting and his war? How much of it was propaganda? It builds up Caesar as an entirely
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