What would offend a Celt?

[cmacq]

Yes, and thus these moronic Latins were set straight on the path to empire.

Again, in the Gaulish Culture (450-45 BC) the greatest insult to a defeated enemy would be the desecration of the falled foe's body by removing the head (seat of the soul) and displaying it as a trophy. Within the belief system of this society, this act alone deigned the dead an afterlife. By the way, their concept of an afterlife was the keystone that held this Culture and individual Gaulish societies together. Then cutting the corpse into small bits and scattering them or feeding them to animals (burning the body bits would actually have been seen as favorable). On this line, feeding the body bits to the victors hounds, would have been by far the most insulting. Anything more would have been seen as crass window dressing.

[dominique]

Yes, and thus these moronic Latins were set straight on the path to empire.

Your post gave me a strange idea and a good laugh:

The romans were like this guy who got dressed as a girl and raped in prison, and when he's back in the 'hood, he gets even with the world by bullying everybody and his dog.

Modern version: NO, I WAS NO PRISON BITCH!

Roman version: NO, ROME WASN'T SACKED, THE GEESE SAVED US!



for a little reference on the joke:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Allia