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Galatian   Listen
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Galatian  adj.  Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.






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... Eumenes II. (197-159 B.C.) it developed an independent and powerful school of sculpture, of whose productions we fortunately possess numerous examples. The most famous of these is the Dying Gaul or Galatian (Fig. 183), once erroneously called the Dying Gladiator. Hordes of Gauls had invaded Asia Minor as early as 278 B.C., and, making their headquarters in the interior, in the district afterwards known from them as Galatia, had become the terror and the scourge of the whole ...
— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell



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