Celtic civilization

by Jean Markale

Other authorsChristine Hauch
Paper Book, 1978

Status

Available

Call number

940/.04/916

Collection

Publication

London Gordon and Cremonesi 1978

Description

While historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization. An expert in Celtic studies, Markale regards myth as a branch of history, and explores mythological material to reveal the culture that gave rise to it. The alternative historical vision that emerges is both convincing and exciting. * One of the most comprehensive treatments of Celtic civilization ever written. * A cornerstone of Western civilization and the major source of its social, political, and literary values, Celtic civilization occupied the whole of Western Europe for more than a millennium. * Unlike the Middle Eastern forerunners of the Greco-Roman world, Celtic civilization is still alive today.… (more)

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LibraryThing member NickBrooke
"The Celts" is a Romantic excursion through Celtic and Romano-Celtic history and tragedy and myth, which tries hard to avoid drawing any dividing lines. Accepted history blends into epic exaggeration; heroic parallels are found for figures and events known from Livy, Caesar and the Greek
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historians; the Celtic Twilight thickens with every page.
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Language

Original publication date

1967

Physical description

26 cm

ISBN

0860330451 / 9780860330455

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