TY - JOUR A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L. C. T1 - Kelten und Druiden im Spiegel des Selbstverständnisses der Antike N2 - Classical writers either glorified the Celts and their cult officials, the druids, thereby demonstrating "soft primitivism", or they vilified them ("hard primitivsm"). Both types of primitivism reflect the self-assessment of the classical cultures concerning their own identity and the level of their cultural status rather than providing hard-core information about Celts and druids. Outside the archaeological evidence there is no reliable information about these. And even the archaeological evidence is very much open to controversial interpretation This situation leave much room to personal speculation, high-flung imagination and even fantasy. TRI Y1 - 2005 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13091 ER -