Actually, the first 'High King of All Britain' was Athelstan (ca. 925). Coincidentally, the most recent In Our Time podcast is about him.
Re: Was there a Kingdom of Britain before Caesar?
Actually, the first 'High King of All Britain' was Athelstan (ca. 925). Coincidentally, the most recent In Our Time podcast is about him.
οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
Even as are the generations of leaves, such are the lives of men.
Glaucus, son of Hippolochus, Illiad, 6.146
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