WI: Gallic Greece?

In 279 BC Celtic tribes launched a large-scale invasion of Greece. They managed to reach as far south as Delphi before they were defeated and dispersed, with some of the survivors eventually migrating into Anatolia. What would have happened if they had been able to successfully conquer, if not all of Hellas at least a good chink of the north and what would the Greco-Gallic realm look like?
 
They never meant to conquer it, they were there for the plunder and possibly get hired by a wealthy monarch. Things would have been pretty much the same, only maybe Antigonus Gonatas wouldn’t get the Macedonian throne.
 

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In a worse case scenario, we have something akin to what happened to Greece and much of the Balkans when the Slavs planted themselves in the region. You would have remnants of Hellenic civilization surviving along the coasts and the Aegean islands, concentrated in key settlements like Corinth or Athens while surrounding by a politically dominant Celtic element in the interior. You wouldn't have a Greco-Gallic realm; you would have potentially many all competing with one another and what remains of the Greeks. Said Greek cities would look for protection in either the Seleucids, Ptolemies or even an ascendant Roman Republic. Or maybe this would be an opportunity for Athens or Rhodes to become the first amongst equals. Piracy would be an issue to contend with.

Greek culture would survive for a time in the interior, likely molding the Celts into something different. Think the influence Byzantium had on states like Serbia and Bulgaria.
 
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They never meant to conquer it, they were there for the plunder and possibly get hired by a wealthy monarch. Things would have been pretty much the same, only maybe Antigonus Gonatas wouldn’t get the Macedonian throne.

Yet they did settle permanently in the middle of Asia Minor, hence those "Galatians" that St Paul wrote to a few centuries later. So why not in Greece, or at least Macedon?
 
Yet they did settle permanently in the middle of Asia Minor, hence those "Galatians" that St Paul wrote to a few centuries later. So why not in Greece, or at least Macedon?

They settled there because they found employement by Antiochus, or else they wouldn't have crossed the Hellespont. I never said they weren’t interested in settling somewhere, I said they weren’t interested in conquering any territory.
 
They settled there because they found employement by Antiochus, or else they wouldn't have crossed the Hellespont. I never said they weren’t interested in settling somewhere, I said they weren’t interested in conquering any territory.
Can they find employment in Greece? Is there anyone willing to pay them?
 
I'm be surprise if the Celts could conquer all of Greece, let alone hold it.

The Greeks are simply better and have more soldiers, better tech, greater logistics and greater wealth then Brennos and his Army.

At best, you see some Gallic version of the Yuan dynasty.
 
Getting to have a Gallic Dynasty,for some time and then melting into the Greek population is somewhat,easier.

But having the Gallic people form a majority of the Ancient Greek territories(Greece,Thrace and Western parts of Asia Minor),could be close to impossible. This region was already quite heavily populated by the Greeks,in various small and large cities, by the year you have mentioned(272 BC).

If such an attempt was actually made,it potentially could as well, rise an another unifying leader in the likes of Alexander the Great to seek revenge as he did against the Persians.
 
In 279 BC Celtic tribes launched a large-scale invasion of Greece. They managed to reach as far south as Delphi before they were defeated and dispersed, with some of the survivors eventually migrating into Anatolia. What would have happened if they had been able to successfully conquer, if not all of Hellas at least a good chink of the north and what would the Greco-Gallic realm look like?
What If this Celts become just Hellenized like prior northern invaders like Dorians ? This Celts May adapt Greek culture, language, maybe found a state.
 
What If this Celts become just Hellenized like prior northern invaders like Dorians ? This Celts May adapt Greek culture, language, maybe found a state.
My knowledge about this is quite unclear but a Gallic(?) group did settle in a region adjacent to the Greek core regions. They were known as Galatians or something like that.

They settled a bit interior of the Asia Minor, from what I know.

I've read that they were quite Hellenized in terms of language and culture and that they were known something like "Barbarian Gauls settled among the Greeks" by some Romans.

How they ended up there, in a region that was a Greek heartland by that time in 280 BC, is quite a mystery!
 
I don't think the Gauls would necessarily start speaking Greek. The Galatians OTL in Anatolia still spoke Galatian until at least the 4th Century, and the language was still very closely related to Gaulish (albeit with some Greek influences) A much larger Celtic state in Greece would arguably be more likely to keep their native language, especially since they would be much closer to their Gallic brethren in Illyria, Northern Italy, and the general Balkan region and thus still have a reason to speak their own tongue.

I’ll just quote myself from an older post on the subject in regards to Hellenization.
 
My knowledge about this is quite unclear but a Gallic(?) group did settle in a region adjacent to the Greek core regions. They were known as Galatians or something like that.

They settled a bit interior of the Asia Minor, from what I know.

I've read that they were quite Hellenized in terms of language and culture and that they were known something like "Barbarian Gauls settled among the Greeks" by some Romans.

How they ended up there, in a region that was a Greek heartland by that time in 280 BC, is quite a mystery!

It's not that mysterious. They were an offshoot of the Celtic invasion who migrated into Anatolia to serve as mercenaries. Then they started trying to take over the place before getting slapped down by the Seleucids who resettled them in Cappadocia.
 
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