Early History Of The Celts

Early History of the Celts INTRODUCTION The Ancient Celts were not an nonreader people, but they transferred their knowledge orally. They had an alphabet of twenty letters called Ogham. each(prenominal) letter was named after a tree from the land where they lived. Ogham was utilise on standing stones, primarily on graves and spring markers. The primary sources of information about the Celts are, in that light, the texts written by the Romans who were in touch with them and Christian monks, who lived in Irish monasteries in the Middle Ages.

Caesar, Livy and Tacitus, wrote about their contemporaries who lived in a representation different than themselves and therefore were considered ?barbarians?, but even though they did not have a positive attitude towards them, they still odd some useful information about Celtic society, religion, mode of life, and so on. One of the problems that arise from this is that many things in these belles-lettres are romanised, e.g. Caesar interprets Celtic gods and calls them b...If you want to get a broad essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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