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Article: What's in a name?(Brief Article)
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- Calliope
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- November 1, 2001
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The whole race ... is madly fond of war, high-spirited and quick to battle, but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.
Thus did the Greek scholar, Strabo (c. 64 B.C. to A.D. 21) describe the Celts
Celtic tribes populated Europe in prehistoric times, that is, before recorded history. Fortunately, works written by Greek and Roman historians that describe the Celts have survived. In classical times, these people were generally referred to as "barbarians," from the Greek adjective barbaros, meaning "foreign, strange, or ignorant." The Greeks called them Keltoi or Celtae. This name, according to many historians, is either a Greek translation or ...