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A Barbarian of Gaul

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As Gaius Julius Caesar executed his decade long subjugation and conquering of Gaul, he wrote of what he called "barbarian" warriors who would fight nearly naked as a way to demonstrate their fearlessness and fierceness in battle. The term "barbarian" was coined by the ancient Greeks to categorize anyone who wasn't Greek but the later Roman application was used to denote inferior and uncivilized people. Certainly, those Gauls he was writing about wouldn't have thought of themselves that way. But, those Gauls didn't leave much of a written record for later historians to reference, so we have to lean on what Caesar tells us.

Of course, Caesar's memoirs of his campaign were that of a warrior politician and not a historian. He was certainly trying to burnish his image for political purposes but there was a great deal of fact and truth in much of what he wrote. Other Romans who were historians also wrote of this phenomenon, although many of those histories were written long after the fact by those without witnessing these events first hand, so most likely they were referencing Caesar's memoirs and other contemporary first hand accounts. We should take Caesar's account at his word since there are very few sources who were as close and intimately involved as was he.

No source speaks of women being among those naked barbarian warriors, so this is just me taking a bit of creative license and conjuring a more fanciful two millennia after the fact depiction. Beside, we're talking "dangerous curves" and those kinds of curves aren't normally associated with men.

This was a struggle by two cultures who had very different attitudes of warfare. The Roman military was highly organized with a strict hierarchy of leadership. Its armies fought as a unified whole with specified strategies and tactics. The army Caesar led through Gaul and briefly into Britannia was led by one of the greatest military tacticians of all time.

Those Gaulish tribes Caesar encountered were far less well organized. It was a society which put much greater emphasis on individual martial prowess. Very much an every man for himself approach in which each warrior sought glory for himself through fierceness and fearlessness. This remained true in non Roman Europe until roughly seven centuries later when the Vikings very successfully merged not only individual martial prowess with a tactical and strategic style incorporating unified organization. Ya know.... "Shield wall!" and all of that.

But, a naked, ripped and very curvy barbarian female warrior... Now that's hot.