Who were the Celts, what was their reputation and was it justified?

The Celts; to some of us these words conjure up thoughts of the Irish people and maybe even your favourite football team, but to those of you reading this who wish to be better educated, the ancient Celts were a culture; a group if you wish , of people who inhabited a vast area of ancient Europe. They spread from as far east as Galatia (modern-day turkey), to the western point of the British Isles. The …

…the word has was different back then. Now the word barbarian describes mad cannibalistic people but back then it was used to describe those people who were not Greek or Roman. So really was their reputation as barbarians justified? Well I would have to agree; yes it was, for you see the Celts were barbarians from the point of view of the Greeks and Romans who could not learn to accept them as a people.