Re: [tied] Herodotus

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13494
Date: 2002-04-25

If you checked the Greek text you'd see that the "Daans" were produced by the translator. The original word is <daoi> (a.k.a. <daai> = Iranian Daha-, a tribe known from many sources, Lat. Dahae, Skt. Dasa-/Da:sa-). <germanioi> is a garbled variant of a name known otherwise as <karmanioi> = inhabitants of Carmania (a Persian province whose capital was Karmana: = modern Kerma:n).
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: tgpedersen
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Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: [tied] Herodotus



Herodotus:


"
Now the Persian nation is made up of many tribes. Those which Cyrus
assembled and persuaded to revolt from the Medes were the principal
ones on which all the others are dependent. These are the Pasargadae,
the Maraphians, and the Maspians, of whom the Pasargadae are the
noblest. The Achaemenidae, from which spring all the Perseid kings,
is one of their clans. The rest of the Persian tribes are the
following: the Panthialaeans, the Derusiaeans, the Germanians, who
are engaged in husbandry; the Daans, the Mardians, the Dropicans, and
the Sagartians, who are nomads.
"

Germanians? Daans?? What happened to them? (Arrian mentions them too).