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

By T. Koch John, John Carey, John Carey

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964244616
• ISBN13: 9780964244610
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Celtic Studies Pubns Inc
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

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