Archaeologist Sir Barry Cunliffe brings up to date his classic work on the Ancient Celts, those bold warriors and skill craftsmen of barbarian Europe who inspired fear in the Greeks and Romans.

Fantasy-roman.

The book covers the period between 800 BC and 400 AD. Animals played a crucial role in many aspects of Celtic life: in the economy, hunting, warfare, art, literature and religion.

Negotiating a fragile peace among the warring clans of the human and faerie worlds, the goddess Aisling is confronted by the forces of the Vatican and England, who have directed a clandestine student of forbidden magic to lead a war to ...

In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make ...

The book includes chapters on archaeology, language, literature, warfare, rural life, towns, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organization, society and technology.

'This book does provide a thoroughly researched and clearly presented picture of those Celts who strayed into the classical world and of the fronge Celtic communities at the moment when they were overrun and assimilated by Rome.' - THES