romanticism. This is a trend that is evident even in the classical period. The early experience of the tribes they called Celts on the part of both the Romans and the Greeks was of their destructive incursions into northern Italy during the fourth century and into the Greek peninsula during the third century B.C.E.9 It was natural therefore that classical authors should also see in the Celts the image of their own uncivilized past, as when Posidonius draws a direct parallel between the reservation