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by radlad 1126 days ago
From somewhere near the middle of the linked article:

> All of that is to make the point that any treatment of ‘Celtic’ warfare is immediately begging an enormous question because ‘who were the Celts?’ is at best an unanswered question and to be frank, probably an unanswerable question.

This table is also of interest: https://acoup.blog/2023/05/12/collections-who-were-the-celts....

So I guess you agree with the author.

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That's not the middle - that's pretty near the beginning (look at your scroll bar).

But yeah, the author spends a great deal of time on the question and it's really interesting. I got maybe 20 paragraphs in before I realized "this is fascinating, but I need to be doing other things".

I intend to return later though, the author's style is great and this is a really interesting article.

I was surprised by the length of his writing, then said, "Ah, that's what he meant by unmitigated."
I think Devereaux mentioned on Twitter that this is the longest single post he's written; he usually breaks his more detailed writing into series.