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subject	book bibliographic info
druids	Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 144, 146, 156, 158 Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 422, 423, 424 Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 248, 249 Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 70, 310 Rohmann (2016), Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity, 265, 273 Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 25 Woolf (2011). Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West. 87, 88, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110
druids, accused of cannibalism	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 208
druids, ammianus, on	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 424
druids, among them, britons	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 423, 424
druids, and human sacrifice	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 422, 475
druids, attacked on mona, anglesey, in ad	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 60, 424
druids, banned by claudius, ?	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 422
druids, banned by tiberius	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 228, 422
druids, diodorus on	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 422
druids, germans, had no	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 427
druids, not present among germans	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 427
druids, reappear in ad	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 70

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "druids"

1. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Druids • druids

Found in books: Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 146; Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 129

2. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 5.32.3-5.32.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • cannibalism, Druids accused of • druids

Found in books: Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 144; Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 208

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5.32.3 \xa0The most savage peoples among them are those who dwell beneath the Bears and on the borders of Scythia, and some of these, we are told, eat human beings, even as the Britons do who dwell on Iris, as it is called. ^5.32.4 \xa0And since the valour of these peoples and their savage ways have been famed abroad, some men say that it was they who in ancient times overran all Asia and were called Cimmerians, time having slightly corrupted the word into the name of Cimbrians, as they are now called. For it has been their ambition from old to plunder, invading for this purpose the lands of others, and to regard all men with contempt.'' None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Druids • druids

Found in books: Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 248; Woolf (2011). Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West. 87, 88

4. Strabo, Geography, 4.4.4
Tagged with subjects: • Druids • Druids, Diodorus on • Druids, and human sacrifice • Druids, banned by Claudius(?) • Druids, banned by Tiberius • druids

Found in books: Gruen (2011), Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, 156; Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 422

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4.4.4 Amongst the Gauls there are generally three divisions of' men especially reverenced, the Bards, the Vates, and the Druids. The Bards composed and chanted hymns; the Vates occupied themselves with the sacrifices and the study of nature; while the Druids joined to the study of nature that of moral philosophy. The belief in the justice of the Druids is so great that the decision both of public and private disputes is referred to them; and they have before now, by their decision, prevented armies from engaging when drawn up in battle-array against each other. All cases of murder are particularly referred to them. When there is plenty of these they imagine there will likewise be a plentiful harvest. Both these and the others assert that the soul is indestructible, and likewise the world, but that sometimes fire and sometimes water have prevailed in making great changes."" None

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