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Some deities were venerated only in one region, but others were more widely known. [30] The Gauls seem to have had a father god, who was often a god of the tribe and of the dead (Toutatis probably being one name for him); and a mother goddess who was associated with the land, earth and fertility [32] (Matrona probably
She says some Roman and Greek writers wanted to show that the barbarian Celts lived in "an upside-down world ... and a standard ingredient in such a world was the manly warrior woman". [ 164 ] The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Politics that the Celts of southeastern Europe approved of male homosexuality.
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
They lived in Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina), also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata, [27] was the part of Italy continually inhabited by Celts since the 13th century BC. [28] Conquered by the Roman Republic in the 220s BC, it was a Roman province from c. 81 BC until 42 BC, when it was merged into Roman Italy. [29]
The inhabitants of the Celtica region called themselves Celts [1] in their own language, and were later called Galli by Julius Caesar: All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Galli, the third.
Lhuyd was the first to recognise that the Irish, British, and Gaulish languages were related to one another, and the inclusion of the Insular Celts under the term "Celtic" from this time forward expresses this linguistic relationship. By the late 18th century, the Celtic languages were recognised as one branch within the larger Indo-European ...
In the aftermath of the battle the Celts settled in northern Phrygia, a region that eventually came to be known as Galatia. [7] The Seleucids built a series of forts at Thyatira, Akrasos and Nakrason and placed garrisons at Seleucia Sidera, Apamea, Antioch of Pisidia, Laodicea on the Lycus, Hierapolis, Peltos and Vlandos to limit Galatian raids.
Cisalpine Gaul around 100 BC [1]. Cisalpine Gaul (Latin: Gallia Cisalpina, also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata [2]) was the name given, especially during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, to a region of land inhabited by Celts (), corresponding to what is now most of northern Italy.