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From somewhere near the middle of the linked article: > All of that is to make the point that any treatment of ‘Celtic’ warfare is immediately begging an enorm
by radlad 3y ago
From somewhere near the middle of the linked article:
> All of that is to make the point that any treatment of ‘Celtic’ warfare is immediately begging an enormous question because ‘who were the Celts?’ is at best an unanswered question and to be frank, probably an unanswerable question.
This table is also of interest: https://acoup.blog/2023/05/12/collections-who-were-the-celts-and-how-did-they-some-of-them-fight/#:~:text=i%20considered%20adding%20a%20third%20column%20with%2C%20%E2%80%98are%20celts%3F%E2%80%99%20and%20a%20shrug%20emoji%20for%20every%20entry%20except%20celtica-proper%2C%20but%20it%20seemed%20like%20overkill%20and%20also%20extra%20work https://acoup.blog/2023/05/12/collections-who-were-the-celts....
So I guess you agree with the author.
- dbingham 3y agoThat's not the middle - that's pretty near the beginning (look at your scroll bar). But yeah, the author spends a great deal of time on the question and it's really interesting. I got maybe 20 paragraphs in before I realized "this is fascinating, but I need to be doing other things". I intend to return later though, the author's style is great and this is a really interesting article.