Sacra ethonogeographica celtica. Mythos, epos and religion in classical and late antique sources of Britannia and Ireland
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.fortunat.2020.31.03Keywords:
Insular Celts, Britain and Ireland in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Greek and Latin Sources of Insular Celts, Picts, Scots, Celtic Religion, Celtic Mithology, Classical Geography, Greek and Latin HistoriographyAbstract
Aim of this article is to show, through the classification, comparison and analysis of Greek and Latin specific classical and late antique texts, how the ancient sources on Britannia and Ireland are, both directly and indirectly, mainly based on historico-religious information and data, as the expression of a historiographic point of view that, back to its roots, was aimed to collect and convey the mythical and epic framework of insular Celts. Moreover, those sources show a historiographic, geographic and etnographic interest, which is expressed in greater detail in the acquisition of toponyms and etnonyms that does not overlook sacred and religious elements, so that the ensemble of the collected sources persists as before, as a real testimony of a religious world that, from the classical point of view, fosters both a geo-historiographic and mythopoietic allure.
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