Asterix the Gaul

Here’s another book with Romans in it. The series The Adventures of Asterix is based on Julius Caesar’s reign. Romans conquered several parts of land around the Mediterranean Sea. Gaul is one of them. In reality, all of Gaul had been conquered by the Romans. Goscinny and Underzo had imagined an excellent plot in which one village filled with invincible Gauls held out against the whole of the Roman Empire. Asterix, the warrior, and his friend Obelix, the menhir delivery man, live with Getafix, the druid, Vitalstatistix, their chief, Cacofonix, the bard, Fulliautomatix, the black-smith, and others in that village. The village is surrounded by many Roman army camps and forests full of wild boars the villagers caught and ate. The Romans in the camps often tried to raid the village but ended up being squashed into balls by the Gauls.

In the book Asterix the Gaul, the Romans in Compendium, a Roman camp, think of sending a spy to the village to discover the secrets of their invincibility. The spy, Caligula Minus, ends up drinking the invincibility potion and reports to the others in the camp about the druid making it. The rest of the story is very captivating. You’ll want to keep reading until the end.

This is the first of the 38 books in the series The Adventures of Asterix. I’ve read most of them and hope to give my opinion on the rest of the books, too. Even though this is a fictional story, you can still understand the lifestyle of the Romans. For example, there were real circuses, and in them, prisoners were fed to the wild animals. Here’s another example. There were gladiator fights that might even end in human deaths. The Romans liked going to the circus and gladiator stadiums and watching the disgusting fights! If you ever want to know more about Romans, gladiator fights and circuses, or the Roman rulers, you can always read Rotten Romans!

Here are some more books in this series.