Re: [tied] Re: Oltak

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
>
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Heyerdahl says 'Oltak' is the Armenian version
> of the name, but
> > > doesn't provide a reference. Is Oltak mentioned
> by any other
> sources
> > > than Plutarch and Appian?
> >
> > The full story of Olthacus the Dandarian and his
> miscarried attempt
> to
> > assassinate Lucullus can be found here:
> >
> > http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lucullus.html
> >
> It does sound a bit like Snorri's description of
> Odin, doesn't it?

*****GK: Well, let's just say that to any normal mind
unaffected by Odinist lunacy, this sounds very much
like the description of Olthacus the Dandarian.
According to Strabo, the Dandarii were a Sindic
[=Pontic Aryan] people. They lived north of the Kuban'
(Hypanis), though their "royal" city was Gorgippia by
the sea. They sometimes rebelled against their
Bosporan suzerains. Mithradates' son Pharnak once used
the Hypanis to "inundate" them into submission.******



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