
March 12th, 2003, 11:17 PM
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Re: [OT] Plato\'s Pub and Philosophical Society
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Maybe we should implement that in classes at College... those Celts were on to something... j/k
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Ah, better not. Don't want to be at the receiving end.
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The Celts did have an egalitarian society for most of their history in which the women and men were fairly equal though. In fact, women were allowed to be chiefs and kings, and I recall that property was inherited through the mother's side, not the father's. The Celts also did not enslave anyone, unlike the Romans.
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You might be right about equality. But the Celts did have slaves, a quick link is here:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/yesss/...Celt/celts.htm
If your argument is more on the line that the did not enslave as much people as the Romans: Well, the Romans didn't enslave everyone else either. In most cases only those who resisted them. Many Gallic tribes were not enslaves (make this almost all). They took hostages but that was not slavery.
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