Does anyone know what the word GAUL (not gall) means, in reference to the movie The Dying Gaul? Romans?

Answer 1

It seems that most people are giving you the definition of gaul but not really answering your question. If you are specifically refering to the movie "The Dying Gaul" then it is a statue in Rome that the character in the movie, played by Peter Sarsgaard, wrote a screenplay around.

Answer 2

Gaul refers to what the Romans called the area that is now (basically) France.

By the way, "The Dying Gaul" was a really good and intense movie. The title reference, however, is to a statue.

Answer 3

Gaul is a region of France,in English the word Gaul also refers to a Celtic inhabitant of that region in ancient times.

Answer 4

Caesar wrote: "Omne Gallia cest dividiam en partes tres."
Latin for "All Gaul is divided into three parts."
Gaul was a collection of Celtic kingdoms and regions that fell under Roman domination about the time of Christ's birth and became an important part of the empire.
The Dying Gaul is a statue of a dying Gael.

Answer 5

1. A Celt of ancient Gaul.
2. A French person.
3. An ancient region of western Europe south and west of the Rhine River, west of the Alps, and north of the Pyrenees, corresponding roughly to modern-day France and Belgium. The Romans extended the designation to include northern Italy, particularly after Julius Caesar's conquest of the area in the Gallic Wars (58-51 B.C.).

Answer 6

The Gauls were a nation of people that lived in (give or take) the area that is France today.

Answer 7

Gaul was the old name for current day france, so it could be a person from that area.

Answer 8

Gaul (Latin Gallia, Greek Galatia) was the region of Western Europe occupied by present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river.

In English the word Gaul also refers to a Celtic inhabitant of that region in ancient times, but the Gauls were widespread in Europe by Roman times, speaking the Gaulish language (a derivative of early Celtic). In addition to the Gauls, there were other peoples living in the territory of present-day northern Italy, such as the Lepontii who had settled on the southern slopes of the Italian Alps, in Raetia.

Gauls under Brennus sacked Rome circa 390 BC. In the Aegean world, a huge migration of Eastern Gauls appeared in Thrace, north of Greece, in 281 BC. Another Gaulish chieftain named Brennus, at the head of a large army, was only turned back from desecrating the Temple of Apollo at Delphi at the last minute -- he was alarmed, it was said, by portents of thunder and lightning. At the same time a migrating band of Celts, some 10,000 fighting men, with their women and children and slaves, were moving through Thrace. Three tribes of Gauls crossed over from Thrace to Asia Minor at the express invitation of Nicomedes I, king of Bithynia, who required help in a dynastic struggle against his brother. Eventually they settled down in eastern Phrygia and Cappadocia in central Anatolia, a region henceforth known as Galatia.

Answer 9

gaul is ancient greek for milk the greeks called us that for are light skin compared to the rest of the mediterranian people and yes iam french the statue is a copy of the original

Answer 10

Gual means "having the nerve" to do something.