The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales

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John T. Koch
Celtic Studies Publications, 1995 - History - 401 pages
A new edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts-a huge selection including both the well-known-Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero-and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh.

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Contents

ANCIENT CELTIC EUROPE
1
Diogenes Laertius
24
Clement of Alexandria
29
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About the author (1995)

John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University. A distinguished critic, reviewer, & broadcaster, he is the author of several books, including "The Intellectuals & the Masses".