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... writer is borrowed , sometimes directly , sometimes in- directly , from a predecessor , and of course often without acknowledgement ... later than 50 B.C. ' This can be done ' , says Professor Tierney , ' by studying the work of later writers ...
... writer is borrowed , sometimes directly , sometimes in- directly , from a predecessor , and of course often without acknowledgement ... later than 50 B.C. ' This can be done ' , says Professor Tierney , ' by studying the work of later writers ...
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... later , that relationship in their sources seems assured . Whether Strabo's ... writers , all of whom are , in his view , dependent on Posidonius . He even ... writers , the fourth being Athenaeus . Of Posidonius he claims ( p . 198 ) ...
... later , that relationship in their sources seems assured . Whether Strabo's ... writers , all of whom are , in his view , dependent on Posidonius . He even ... writers , the fourth being Athenaeus . Of Posidonius he claims ( p . 198 ) ...
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... later writers ( cf. p . 63 below ) , and doubtless the identification goes back to an early common source . But ... writers , then , Timagenes and Polyhistor , both writing about the middle of the first century B.C. , are using material ...
... later writers ( cf. p . 63 below ) , and doubtless the identification goes back to an early common source . But ... writers , then , Timagenes and Polyhistor , both writing about the middle of the first century B.C. , are using material ...
Contents
The Problem Some recent studies I | 1 |
The Ritual Functions of the Druids in the Early | 11 |
The Wider Functions of the Druids in the Early | 31 |
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Aedui Alexander Cornelius Alexandrian tradition Ammianus ancient Anglesey anti-Roman Ariovistus augury Augustodunum Augustus Ausonius authority barbarian barbaric Bellovaci Caesar Caesar's account Cambridge Celtic Celts century A.D. chief Cicero cited claims Classical Claudius Cyril derived Dio Chrysostom Diodorus Siculus Diogenes Laertius disciplina divination Divitiacus druidical druidism druids Dumnorix earlier earliest early element especially ethnographical euhages evidence extant fact Gallic Gallic War Gaul Gaulish nobility Greek gutuater Helvetii Hist historian History human sacrifices Ibid important influence intellectual classes Irish Jullian Klotz knowledge later Latin Leipzig Lucan magi nature Ogam Orgetorix Paris passage Pauly-Wissowa perhaps philosophy Pliny Pliny's political Polyhistor Pomponius Mela Posidonian tradition Posidonius possibly priests probably Pytha Pythagoras Pythagorean refers regard religion Roman Rome scholars soul sources Strabo Strabo and Diodorus Suetonius suggests suppression Tacitus teaching Tierney Timaeus Timagenes tion translation Vendryes word writers young Gaulish δὲ ἐν καὶ περὶ