These people were the Galatians, tribes of Celtic origin who spread eastward from the area later known as Pannonia, and down to the Danube. They came in large numbers, whole tribes, families, livestock, many horses, and were similar to the mass migrations of. Gallic people that had invaded Italy and sacked Rome around 390 BC.

When the horsemen of Galatai were engaged, the servants remained behind the ranks and proved useful in the following way: if a horseman or his horse should fall, the slave brought him a horse to mount; if the rider was killed, the slave mounted the horse in his master’s place; if both rider and horse were killed, there was a mounted man ready.

The Galatians (Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, romanized: Galátai; Latin: Galatae, Galati, Gallograeci; Greek: Γαλάτες, romanized: Galátes, lit. 'Gauls') were a Celtic people dwelling in Galatia, a region of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey surrounding Ankara during the Hellenistic period. [1] .

Jan 5, 2020 · Etymology: uncertain – related to the Late Latin caballus (horse, nag) and Ancient Greek καβάλλης (kabállēs – nag) and maybe Persian کول (kaval – second class horse of mixed blood). Possibly ultimately from PIE *kebʰ- (worn-out horse, nag).

The Thracian horseman (also "Thracian Rider" or "Thracian Heroes") is a recurring motif depicted in reliefs of the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Balkans—mainly Thrace, Macedonia, [1] [2] Thessaly [3] and Moesia—roughly from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD.

The deepest cause was the collapse of the kingdom that had once been Lysimachus': when this king was killed in 281, the tribes in the buffer zone in the north sided with the barbarous Galatians, who now found the way to the south open.

Jun 12, 2017 · From their coastal possessions in Thrace and Anatolia, they were able to recruit the warlike peoples of the interiors: Thracians, Galatians, Lycians and Pamphlians. Most of these fought as thureophoroi. Libyans are mentioned, but whether these are from Greek Cyrene or the Libyan desert-dwelling tribes is unknown.

The dating of the monument to 278/277 BCE (based on the appearance of Phoinix as a cavalry commander) makes it more likely that this is in fact depicting a Galatian, with the monument expressing the idea that Herakles will protect the Greeks in Kyzikos or elsewhere from the Galatian invasion.

In 276 BC Antiochus I won against fearful odds by directing his sixteen elephants against the Galatian horsemen and scythed chariots. Not only did the horses turn in panic and cause chaos among their own infantry, but the elephants came on behind, tossing, goring and trampling.

Mar 14, 2021 · Just bloody great job mate.