Kelten, Römer, Griechen III CFP

ler zusammenführen. Über die fällige große Bestandsaufnahme zum Thema „Kelten im
Römischen Reich“ hinaus erhoffen wir uns von den Diskussionen zwischen Forschern, die
sonst die jeweils andere Seite zumeist aus relativ enger Perspektive und großer Ferne in
den Blick nehmen, eine Horizonterweiterung im Sinne einer Annäherung keltologischer
und klassisch-altertumswissenschaftlicher Studien überhaupt.
Vorschläge für Vorträge können bis zum 15. Februar 2014 an celtoromania@skph.uni-heidelberg.de
geschickt werden und sollten einen Titel sowie ein Abstract im Umfang von
150-300 Wörtern enthalten. Die Vorträge sollten 30 Minuten lang sein. Nähere
Informationen werden ab dem 1. April 2014 versandt.
English version
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Celtic perhaps reached its widest extent in (Central) Europe around the time of Christ's
birth. In Antiquity Celts had settled far and wide, not only in western Europe from Britain
and Ireland to Spain, but also in south-central and south-eastern Europe and into Anatolia.
The expansion of the Roman Empire had brought practically the entire area of Celtic language
and culture under its sway. Celtic lost its leading position to Latin. This process of
displacement has lasted right down to the present, whereby the area of Celtic speech is now
confined to north-western Europe, as a result of which Celtic has lost ground to a Latin
daughter-language and a Germanic language heavily influenced by the same.
The proposed Symposium aims to look further into the multiple language and cultural
contacts resulting from initial Celtic expansion to its later displacement. The main emphasis
will concentrate on the contacts between the Celtic languages and their Latin /Romance
and Greek counterparts, which are to be seen rather as mutual influences than as one-sided
dominance. In addition, contact with other relevant languages of the period (e.g. Celtic-
Germanic language contact, Italo-Celtic contacts, possible hamito-semitic influence on the
toponomy in the area of Britain and Ireland, etc.) would also be brought in.
Possible ideas for papers may include:
- Celtic loanwords in Latin from the time of the Roman Republic onwards.
- Celtic influence on Roman politicians /Latin authors, whose families originally derive
from Celtic areas (e.g. Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul, Spain. etc.) and who exercised considerable
influence in Rome. Perhaps there are traces of Celtic influence to be seen in their
works?
- Traces of Celtic elements in personal and place-names deriving from Antiquity.
- Substrate influences from the Celtic languages in (Vulgar) Latin and various phenomena
still to be seen in some modern Romance languages.
- Influences from Latin in the syntax particularly of the Insular Celtic languages, which -
differently from Continental Celtic - survived Antiquity and which may still be spoken to
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