Brill’s New Pauly

Get access
Search Results: | 2 of 255 |

Celts
(6,582 words)

[German version]

I. Name

The name C. is first used by the Greek authors of the 5th cent. BC (Hdt. 4,49: Κελτοί; Keltoí; Scyl. 18). Their settlement area was called Keltikḗ (Κελτική). In around 270 BC, the term ‘Galatians’ (Γαλάται; Galátai) is found in Timaeus, the name exclusively applied to the C. in the east. The Greeks clearly distinguished between C. and Galatians. Confusion arose from the translation of Galli as Galatai by the Romans (Caes. B Gall. 1,1,1). Galatai as an…

Cite this page
Lafond, Yves (Bochum), Strobel, Karl (Klagenfurt) and Euskirchen, Marion (Bonn), “Celts”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e611870>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



▲   Back to top   ▲