ausanias does not name any of the tribes the came from. According to Strabo, Brennus was a member of the (otherwise 4.1.13). Strabo does, however, provide us with the detail that the tribe of the Tectosages was associated with the invasion of Greece and reached Delphi. The Tectosages were probably from southwestern Gaul, the area that became Gallia Narbonennsis. Strabo also tells us that the tribes of the Trocmi and the Tolistobogii were associated with the Tectosages, and all three became the Galatians. Polybius tells us that the Thracians around Byzantium on the Hellespont were conquered by the Celts under Comontorius (4.45.10 – a leader not named by Pausanias). These Celts had, we are told, quitted their homes under Brennus. After the defeat at Delphi (now led by Comontorius?) they proceeded to the Hellespont and set up their own capital at Tylis (near modern Tulovo, Bulgaria). Other Celtic tribes later associated with the Galatians may also have originally come in the third century invasion, but we have little other information with which to form arguments for the composition of the Celtic invasions.
The Celts of Brennus
Apr 12, 2024
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