Galatians - Celtic Invaders of Greece and Asia Minor (Grainger John D)(Pevná vazba)

One of the few books devoted to this subject, it narrates the momentous yet neglected events of 279, when the Celtic Galatians invaded, defeated and beheaded the Macedonian king, over-running much of Greece

The eastern Celtic tribes, known to the Greeks as Galatians, exploited the waning of Macedonian power after Alexander the Great's death to launch increasingly ambitious raids and expeditions into the Balkans. In 279 BC they launched a major invasion, defeating and beheading the Macedonian king, Ptolemy Keraunos, before sacking the Greeks' most sacred oracle at Delphi. Eventually forced to withdraw northwards, they were defeated by Antigonus Gonatus at Lysimachia in 277 BC but remained a threat.

A large Galatian contingent was invited to cross to Asia to intervene in a war in Bithynia but they went on to seize much of central Anatolia for themselves,
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