Celts and the classical world / H.D. Rankin
1987, 1st edition. London [Portland, OR] : Croom Helm ; Areopagitica Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388379
ISBN: 0709922957
Physical description; 319 pp.; 23 cm. 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. Subjects; Celts. Public opinion Greece. Cross-cultural studies. Civilization, Celtic. Rome.
Price: €25.00