Celtic Heroic Age : Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe & Early Ireland & Wales -Language: old_irish

Koch, John T. (EDT); Carey, John (CON)

ISBN 10: 1891271091 / ISBN 13: 9781891271090

Published by Celtic Studies Publications, 2003

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Title: Celtic Heroic Age : Literary Sources for ...

Publisher: Celtic Studies Publications

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Edition: 4th Edition

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Synopsis:

A new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both the well known Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero - and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh. This edition includes three new early Irish tales, translated by Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha: The Birth of Aed Sláine; Fingal Rónáin, and the Story of Mis and Dubh Rois.

About the Author:

John Koch is Senior Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, and Project Leader of The Celtic Languages and Cultural Identity Project.