Elements of Celtic mythology are recorded in early Irish and early Welsh literature. Most written evidence of the early Celts comes from Greco-Roman writers, who often grouped the Celts as barbarian tribes. They followed an ancient Celtic religion overseen by druids.

2021年4月1日 · The ancient Celts were various tribal groups living in parts of western and central Europe in the Late Bronze Age and through the Iron Age (c. 700 BCE to c. 400 CE). Given the name Celts by ancient...

2019年3月5日 · Although the first mentions of the Celts were in Roman texts from around the 7 th Century AD, the Celtic culture is thought to have emerged around 1200 BC. Despite the picture the Romans painted of a savage and brutish society of uncultured, unrestrained ruffians, their culture was a complex one.

2021年3月26日 · Our knowledge of Celtic society is, unfortunately, fragmentary and reliant on secondhand literary sources and archaeology. Nevertheless, there are many features of Celtic society that we do know about, whether it be the status symbols of ancient Gauls or the fighting queens of ancient Britain.

2025年2月1日 · Information on Celtic institutions is available from various classical authors and from the body of ancient Irish literature. The social system of the tribe, or “people,” was threefold: king, warrior aristocracy, and freemen farmers.

2017年11月30日 · The Celts were a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe that shared a similar language, religious beliefs, traditions and culture. It’s believed that the Celtic culture started...

Ancient Celtic society can be reconstructed conceptually on the basis of terminology: by comparing words attested in Gaulish, Old Gaelic and Old Welsh, a number of common principles and structures that seem to underly Celtic society and guide its development from small-scale kin-groups to larger-scale nations has been identified.

2021年4月21日 · In this collection, we examine in detail the Celtic peoples of ancient Europe. We look at their origins in central Europe with the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures, the warfare and migration of the Celts, their society, art, religious beliefs and how they interacted with each other and their neighbours.

The areas with the most abundant evidence of La Tène material culture do not seem to have been called “Celtic” by the historians of antiquity (north-eastern France or the middle Rhineland). There is no evidence of early mass Celtic migrations; both the archaeological record and the genetic data suggest a great deal of continuity of ...

2015年10月13日 · Local people mixed with invaders and settlers from around the empire, creating a cosmopolitan world where Roman and indigenous ways of life combined to create a unique Romano-British culture. Ireland and northern Scotland were never conquered, but people were still affected by the impact of Rome.