Druids

Question 1

what are the 11 role of druids?

Answer 1

1. Conveners of meetings
2. supporters of warriors
3. educators
4. conservers of tradition
5. judges
6. intermediaries
7. mediators
8. healers
9. diviners
10. priests
11. astronomers

Question 2

What is governors meeting

Answer 2

Met annually at Chartres in Gaul

Question 3

Supporters if warriors?

Answer 3

encouraged resistance to Rome

Question 4

educators?

Answer 4

trained young nobles to be Druids (took 20 years to train)

Question 5

conservers of tradition?

Answer 5

maintained knowledge of customary lore

Question 6

judges?

Answer 6

administered tribal laws
decided punishments (e.g. exclusion from sacrifices)

Question 7

intermediaries?

Answer 7

interceded with the gods

Question 8

mediators?

Answer 8

decided disputes:

• between nobles and conflicts
• between tribes

Question 9

Healers?

Answer 9

special knowledge of herbal medincines

Question 10

Diviners?

Answer 10

predicted the future

Question 11

priests?

Answer 11

performed sacrifices and rituals

Question 12

astronomers?

Answer 12

organised the calendars
fixed the days of festivals and sacrifice
determined ‘lucky’ and ‘unlucky’ days

Question 13

What do the priests do with all these roles?

Answer 13

brought all these practices into a single structure , unified by religious commitment.

Question 14

Who are Druids?

Answer 14

• members of professional class in which their society’s religious and spiritual life was embodied.
• philosophers of nature and of ethics
• important public figure and priestly caste

Question 15

How vital and important were they in society?

Answer 15

• had to go under 20 years of training and remember knowledge as no written sources.
  Evidence:
  Caesar: “Report says that in the schools of druids…some persons remained 20 years under training”

Question 16

What did druids always have to be present in?

Answer 16

any sort of rituals

Question 17

Although Druids, what was a threat to them during Roman invasion?

Answer 17

druids always first one killed in attack/invasion of Romans as ones with most knowledge and influence of Celts

Question 18

What did Caesar say about Druids?

Answer 18

officiate at worship of gods, regulate public and private sacrifices and give ruling on all religious questions
honoured by ppl
acts as judges of disputes
exempt from military services and taxes

Question 19

What was a major attack of Druids?

Answer 19

in AD60, Roman governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus (general), attacked island of Mona (stronghold of Druids)