From: tgpedersen
Message: 16193
Date: 2002-10-12
> > In at least Caesar's time, archaeologically there isI must have had a stroke in the comprehension center of my brain. I
> > the same culture
> > on both sides of the Rhine, I believe I read
> > somewhere. That means
> > Strabo's remark would make sense (although it
> > wouldn't be true),
> > since the Celts on the right bank of the Rhine would
> > be free Celts.
>
> *****GK: Cf. below. Strabo is not comparing free and
> unfree Celts but Celts and Germans.*****
>
> > It all mixes beautifully with a Germanic
> > colonization of the area of
> > Germania at that time. Which I'm not the first to
> > suggest.
>
> ******GK: Here is the passage from Strabo (VII.1.2):
>
> "Now the parts beyond the Rhenus, immediately after
> the country of the Celti, slope towards the east and
> are occupied by the Germans, who, though they vary
> slightly from the Celtic stock in that they are
> wilder, taller, and have yellower hair, are in all
> other respects similar, for in build, habits, and
> modes of life they are such as I have said the Celti
> are. And I also think that it was for this reason that
> the Romans assigned to them the name "Germani," as
> though they wished to indicate thereby that they were
> "genuine" Galatae, for in the language of the Romans
> "germani" means "genuine."" ******
>
>