Ebook: Celts and the Classical World

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