{"id":117239,"date":"2023-01-18T19:55:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=117239"},"modified":"2023-01-18T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:56:12","slug":"calgacus-the-caledonian","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/calgacus-the-caledonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgacus the Caledonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Calgacus<\/b> was the first Caledonian (inhabitant of present-day Scotland) mentioned in Roman sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/publiusz-korneliusz-tacyt\/\">Tacitus<\/a> describes him as the leader of the Caledons, a man of self-respect and an excellent orator. He had red hair and a powerful build. His name in the Celtic language meant &#8220;having a sword&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/publius-cornelius-tacitus\/\">Tacitus<\/a>, in 84 CE Calgacus, in response to the intensifying offensive of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/gnejusz-juliusz-agrykola\/\">Julius Agricola<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(governor of Britain from 77 CE) was to give a fiery speech (which was probably made up) and stimulate the crowd to fight against the Romans. He gathered an army of over 30,000 and in the Grampians (the so-called Battle of Mons Graupius) he faced the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">Roman army<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gnaeus-julius-agricola\/\">Agricola<\/a>. Despite the defeat, Calgacus managed to make peace, which shows the great respect Romans had for the Caledonians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40757,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-117239","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/117239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/117239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=117239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}