Vercingetorix

Monument
This monument depicts Vercingetorix, King of the Gauls, at battle. He is the man at the bottom with long flowing hair.

The Dying Gaul
After Caesar (and subsequently Octavian's) defeat of the Gauls, tens of thousands of men and women were brought to Rome to become slaves. Today, we would know the Gauls as French, Swiss, Belgian and Germanic. One out of three people in Rome were enslaved. Most of them were Gallic and Germanic in origin, although any conquered tribe could be brought to Rome as slaves.