Brennus (3rd century BC)

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See also: Brennus and Brennus (4th century BC)

Brennus, Gaul, leader of the army of Gauls who in 279 BC invaded Macedonia and northern Greece. He turned the Greek defense at the pass of Thermopylae, and sacked Delphi, where he was wounded. He then penetrated into Epirus and sacked the treasures of the temples of Zeus at Dodona and Olympia. Facing determined Greek resistance, he withdrew to Macedonia, dying from his wound. Without him, his people split. Some of them crossed the Bosporus and settled in a part of Asia Minor that came to be called Galatia, while some settled in Thrace, founding a short-lived city-state named Tylis. The others returned to their homelands in Gaul, keeping in trust the treasures of Brennus' campaign.

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• Junianus Justinus, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' Histories 24.4-8
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.19-22, 10.23