Sacra ethonogeographica celtica. Mythos, epos e religio nelle fonti classiche e tardoantiche della Britannia e dell'Irlanda
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Iannello, Fausto
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Journal article
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Italian
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text (article)
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2020
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Fortunatae: Revista canaria de Filología ISSN 1131-6810 Nº 31, 2020, pags. 45-63
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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.