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with the other Celtic regions was occasional and maritime.Recorded History.According to Caesar there are no contemporary religious writings from the Celts themselves because [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as the Celts had a religious prohibition against writing things down, although they eventually kept trade related records using Greek characters. We must rely on the writings of others. A number of classical writers mentioned the Celts. The very first use of the term ‘Keltoi’ is by the Greek Hecataeus of Miletus around 500 BC. Most of these Greek and Roman authors whose works have survived didn’t have any first hand knowledge of the Celts. Most of the extant writing comes from the first two centuries of the common era, and rely on observations of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius, early 1st century BC, whose own writings have been lost. His information was based on first hand knowledge of Celtic society in Gaul. Scraps of his writings are contained in later writings, especially Athenaeus, Diodorus Siculus [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], mid 1st century BC and Strabo 40 BC-25 AD.From Posidonius we learn that Celts subscribed to the Pythagorean idea of transmigration of the soul [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which Caesar mentions as well though he couches it in terms of making the fighters unafraid of death. Julius Caesar h
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