Celtic Mythology  Known as the Keltoi to the Greeks, and the
Galli to the Romans, the peoples north of the Alps were of
little initial interest in the ancient world. Then in the fourth
century BC the great Celtic migrations from Central Europe
pushed out in earnest, and overran the illustrious ancient
civilisations on the mediterranean. In 390 BC the Celts became
the only ancient civiliation to ever capture Rome; a century
later they sacked prestigious Delphi of the Greeks. The Celts
had arrived in the history books.  Unfortunately, there is
little we can guage of their history from their own perspective,
but we have many clues, through the historical sources and
especially archaeological excavations. For a start, the Celts
were a mixture of over 40 tribes who generally shared customs
and beliefs, who pushed from central Europe and north into
Britain, west into Spain, south into Turkey, but came up against
the ever more closely migrating Germanic peoples in the West.
Eventually Celtica became trapped in the v