This episode I discuss the interwar period between the First and Second Punic Wars which I have dubbed the Inter Bellum Punica. This episode will serve as a precursor to next episode where I discuss the Second Punic War, also known as the Hannibalic War in our sources. The first part will be on Carthage’s expansion into Spain while the second part will be on Rome’s wars with the Celts in Italy.

Link to The Celts: A Modern History by Ian Stewart on Princeton University Press.

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Intro: Skye Cuillin by Kevin Macleod

Outro: Celtic Heart by Kira Daly

Primary Sources:

Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheka XXV.10

Polybius Histories Book II

Secondary Sources

Cunliffe, Barry: The Ancient Celts, ISBN 978–0–19–875292–9

Goldsworthy, Adrian: The Fall of Carthage, ISBN 978-0-3043-6642-2

Lancel, Serge: Hannibal, ISBN 0-631-20631-0

This episode I discuss the Celts and their involvement as mercenaries in the wars of the Mediterranean. I go over how the Celts fought with the Ptolemaic Pharaohs of Egypt and their eventual rebellion and suicide in the Nile. Celtic Mercenaries were also involved with the fighting between the Romans and Carthaginians in the First Punic War. I detail the rise of Carthage as well as their war with the Romans. One Celtic man named Autaritas, a mercenary under the employ of Carthage, rebelled along with other mercenaries because of a lack of pay. Join me in this episode to hear more about this

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Website: hocpod.wordpress.com

X (Twitter): @histofthecelts

Intro: Skye Cuillin by Kevin Macleod

Outro: Celtic Heart by Kira Daly

Primary Sources:

Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo

Polybius, Histories: Description of the treatment of prisoners by the rebels: Polybius, Histories; 1.80

Secondary Sources:

Cunliffe, Barry: The Ancient Celts, ISBN 978–0–19–875292–9

Ellis, Peter B.: The Celtic Empire, ISBN 978-0786709335

Goldsworthy, Adrian: The Fall of Carthage, ISBN 978-0-3043-6642-2

Green, Miranda J.: The Celtic World, ISBN: 0-415-05764-7

Hoyos, Dexter: Peoples of the Ancient World: The Carthaginians, ISBN 978-0-415-43644-1

This episode is a discussion on the extremities of Celtic Culture. The first half is a discussion of the Celts in Ukraine and how they affected the Bosporan Greeks in Ukraine and Moldova. The second half is a discussion of the Celitberians and the Celts in Iberia. There is also a discussion of the differences between the two. The migration period of Celtic History has also finished as of this episode.

Email: historyoftheceltspodcast@gmail.com

Website: hocpod.wordpress.com

X (Twitter): @histofthecelts

Intro: Skye Cuillin by Kevin Macleod

Outro: Celtic Heart by Kira Daly

Primary Sources:

Diodorus Siculus: Bibliotheka 5.33, 12.31

Herodotus: The Histories, 2.33.3 Description of the Celts’ homeland

Strabo: Geography 3.4.12

Secondary Sources:

Cunliffe, Barry: The Ancient Celts, ISBN 978–0–19–875292–9

Freeman, Philip: The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts. ISBN: 978-1-4165-8523-7

Lorrio Alberto J., Ruiz-Zapatero Gonzalo, ‘The Celts in Iberia: An Overview’, E-Keltoi, Volume 6 The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula.

Maier, Bernhard: The Celts: A History from Earliest Times to the Present. ISBN 978-1-4744-2620-3

Mozota, Francisco Burillo, ‘Celtiberians: Problems and Debates’, E-Keltoi, Volume 6: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula.

Shchukin M. B., Tchebotarenko G. F., and Shcherbakova T. A., ‘Two Finds Belonging to La Tène and Roman Periods from the Moldavian Republic’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 12 (1993)

Shchukin M., ‘The Celts in Eastern Europe’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 14 (1995), 201–27;

Treister M. J., ‘The Celts in the North Pontic Area: A Reassessment’, Antiquity, 67 (1993), 789–804