Celt and Roman

The Celts of Italy

• Author(s): Peter Berresford Ellis,
• Publisher: Constable
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 0094758204
  ISBN_13: 9780094758209
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / Rome , History / Europe / Western , History / Europe / Great Britain / General ,

Description:... This is the first popular account of the Celts of Italy and the land known as Cisalpine Gaul. In 390 BC a Celtic army captured Rome and occupied it for seven months until the Roman Senate paid them off. For the next fifty years, Celtic armies remained nearby; and for two centuries the Celts of Italy resisted Rome with a stubborn defiance, often annihilating entire consular armies sent against them. Rome could not claim to be master of the Po Valley Celts until 191 BC.