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Roman myth

Classical Caledonia: Roman History and Myth in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Alan Montgomery

Edinburgh University Press, 2020

225 pages

Hardcover, £75.00

ISBN: 9781474445641

In this engaging and well-researched book, Alan Montgomery invites us to eavesdrop on the fractious debates that animated the antiquarian communities of 18th-century Scotland. This period saw numerous Scottish antiquarians and historians drawn into contentious disputes over the scope, duration and impact of the Roman invasions of Scotland during the first three centuries AD. Had Caledonia

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