Celts and the Classical World | David Rankin | Taylor & Francis eBooks

ABSTRACT

To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|33 pages

Origins, Languages and Associations

chapter 2|11 pages

Massilia, an Early Contact

chapter 3|4 pages

Notices in Some Fourth Century BC Authors

chapter 4|34 pages

Anthropology and Heroics

chapter 5|20 pages

The Second Finest Hour of Hellas

chapter 6|50 pages

Tumult, Prejudice and Assimilation: Rome and the Gauls

chapter 7|13 pages

Cisalpine Literary Talent

chapter 8|22 pages

Celts and Iberians

chapter 9|20 pages

The Galatians

chapter 10|5 pages

The Celts in Greco-Roman Art

chapter 11|18 pages

Britain, a Source of Disquiet

chapter 12|14 pages

Ausonius and the Civilisation of Later Roman Gaul

chapter 13|14 pages

Celtic Women in the Classical World

chapter 14|36 pages

Religion and the Druids

chapter 15|5 pages

Concluding Speculations