Celts and the Classical World'This book does provide a thoroughly researched and clearly presented picture of those Celts who strayed into the classical world and of the fronge Celtic communities at the moment when they were overrun and assimilated by Rome.' - THES |
Contents
Origins Languages and Associations | 1 |
Massilia an Early Contact | 34 |
Notices in Some Fourth Century BC Authors | 45 |
Anthropology and Heroics | 49 |
The Second Finest Hour of Hellas | 83 |
Tumult Prejudice and Assimilation Rome and the Gauls | 103 |
Cisalpine Literary Talent | 153 |
Celts and Iberians | 166 |
Britain a Source of Disquiet | 213 |
Ausonius and the Civilisation of Later Roman Gaul | 231 |
Celtic Women in the Classical World | 245 |
Religion and the Druids | 256 |
Concluding Speculations | 281 |
The Romans and Ireland | 286 |
Abbreviations | 295 |
Bibliography | 296 |
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