Brennus (3rd century BC)

Brennus ( gall. Brennos ) was a Celtic military leader and chieftain. It was here but probably less a historical person but rather to a Celtic / Gallic nobility.

Brennus coincided with several strains 280 BC in the Balkan peninsula and defeated in 279 BC at Delphi a Greek army. About this expedition report several ancient authors, such as Pausanias, Diodorus or Junianus Justinus.

Brennus cooperated during the campaign with another Celtic army, which was under leadership of a certain Akichorios. Macedonia and Greece were considerably weakened by decades of Diadokhian. The Celts dealt Thermopylae and thus cut the Greek defender actually from. Then a aitolisches army was defeated and the city Kallipolis plundered in Aetolia and destroyed. Finally, the Celts reached under Brennus, where it was mainly about loot, Delphi, while Akichorios had not yet digested with his troops. Probably the Celts even reached the holy district of Delphi itself an army phokischer and aitolischer troops then attacked however, the Celts, the high losses were suffered and beaten back, and this event was transfigured in the aftermath part. Brennus suffered serious injuries in the attack and died shortly afterwards, perhaps by suicide. After the defense of the Celtic invasion the festival Soteria was founded in Greece (about: "rescue party" ).

The other penetrated to Greece Celts founded under the leadership of their new ruler Komontorios in Thrace, a principality whose capital was Tylis. The part of the Celts moved on reasoned in Asia Minor, the Empire of the Galatians.