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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779951103321

Autore

Rankin H. D.

Titolo

Celts and the classical world / / David Rankin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-74721-7

1-134-74722-5

1-280-10796-0

0-203-44198-2

0-203-27860-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

306.089916038

936.4004916

Soggetti

Celts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1987 by Croom Helm, Ltd."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Origins, Languages and Associations; Massilia, an Early Contact; Notices in Some Fourth Century BC Authors; Anthropology and Heroics; The Second Finest Hour of Hellas; Tumult, Prejudice and Assimilation: Rome and the Gauls; Cisalpine Literary Talent; Celts and Iberians; The Galatians; The Celts in Greco-Roman Art; Britain, a Source of Disquiet; Ausonius and the Civilisation of Later Roman Gaul; Celtic Women in the Classical World; Religion and the Druids; Concluding Speculations; Appendix: The Romans and Ireland; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'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