Where did the Senones tribe originate before moving into Italy?
The Senones tribe originated in the region of France now known as Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne. A branch of this people moved over the Alps into northern Italy around 400 BC.
The Senones tribe originated in the region of France now known as Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne. A branch of this people moved over the Alps into northern Italy around 400 BC.
Brennus led his forces to a decisive defeat for Rome near the Allia River in 391 BC. The Senones captured most of the city except for the Capitoline Hill where Marcus Manlius Capitolinus saved the Romans using sacred geese of Juno.
The Romans agreed to pay one thousand pounds weight of gold to buy peace from Brennus. During negotiations over the weights used to measure the metal, Brennus threw his sword onto the scales and declared woe to the conquered.
Marcus Furius Camillus returned from exile to challenge the occupying forces and restore Roman authority. Plutarch describes how the Gauls were first ejected from the streets then annihilated eight miles outside town on the road to Gabii.
Some historians believe the story about Clusium is fiction designed to explain an unmotivated raid because Clusium had no clear reason to appeal to Rome for help according to modern analysis. Other theories suggest Brennus acted in concert with Dionysius I of Syracuse who wanted control over Sicily.