Late Romans mostly Celt?

[Conal]

Well they didn´t got the better of hoplites in the 2nd battle of Thermopylae.
Tim Newark wrote a fascinating text to impress (and there is an impressive drawing from uncle Angus too in the book) but the only accounts from the battle comes from Pausanias where he says they didn't make it to Delphi.
Diodorus is so mixed up in his accounts that his accuracy is questionable.
The earlier damages in Delphi have been dated to Alarich 4th century AD not before.
Well Celts sacked an obscure little town called Kallio and I guess anybody coming home with plunder from the temple of Apollo in Kallio claiming it was from Delphi there was no thing to challenge his word :lol:
Especially if he was 6 foot tall and with an oversized sword :twisted:

Kind regards

I myself am rather circumspect regarding histories written for a home audience :? If this applies to so called plunder from Kallio then it applies to home grown literary types.

I have read that Livy thought it had been sacked and Strabo believed that treasures found in a lake at Toulouse had come from Delphi.

Were they six foot tall ... whose feet were used as a measure

And as for the sword being oversized ... the average blade length at the time of the "supposed" sacking of Delphi was 60cm :roll: