Celts and the Classical World - 2nd Edition

Taylor & Francis

'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 > To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book. > 1 Origins, Languages and Associations, 2 Massilia, an Early Contact, 3 Notices in Some Fourth Century BC Authors, 4 Anthropology and Heroics, 5 The Second Finest Hour of Hellas, 6 Tumult, Prejudice and Assimilation: Rome and the Gauls, 7 Cisalpine Literary Talent, 8 Celts and Iberians, 9 The Galatians, 10 The Celts in Greco-Roman Art, 11 Britain, a Source of Disquiet, 12 Ausonius and the Civilisation of Later Roman Gaul, 13 Celtic Women in the Classical World, 14 Religion and the Druids, 15 Concluding Speculations, Appendix: The Romans and Ireland, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index > \n'Intriguing, wide-ranging and highly informative ... Rankin'r