"The Galatians" Topic

"The Galatians are one of the lesser-known peoples of the Balkans in the ancient period. This may be because they had no written history of their own when the focus was on the Greek and then Roman impact on the region. John Grainger has written a very readable new history of the Galatians which pulls together what is known about these fierce warriors.

The Gauls expanded from their homeland north of the Alps into northern Italy and then westwards to France and Spain, and eastwards into the northern Balkans by the fourth century BC where the Greeks called them Galatians. They appeared as a piecemeal migration involving all or part of several tribes, subjugating and assimilating the inhabitants of a wide area around modern Belgrade (Celtic Singidunum). They became known as the Scordisci, although this was still a loose grouping of tribes with no permanent central authority. The Galatians didn't do kingship, relying on temporary leadership for their further expansion towards Greece, Thrace and later into Asia Minor…"

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This is a good source book for the Galatians. Grainger stays away from much of the propaganda spread by the Greeks and gives a direct dissemination of the facts as we know- or don't know about them.

I get the question "Did the Gauls ever fight the Macedonians?" (or the Greeks). This book describes those questions and describes the encounters in better detail than anywhere I have found.

Just downloaded it.