Re: [tied] Re: Oltak

--- Abdullah Konushevci <a_konushevci@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah
> Konushevci"
> > <a_konushevci@...> 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
> > > >
> > > > Does Heyerdahl provide a reference to any
> Classical Armenian
> > source
> > > > where the name Oltak (or similar) occurs?
> > > >
> > > > Piotr
> > > ************
> > > As far as I remember, there is also a mythologic
> hero of
> Dardanians
> > > named Dandon. His charcteristic is to live very
> long life.
> > > If it be of any importance, I will find the
> source, even I doubt
> > how
> > > it should be segmented as Dan-don or Dand-on.
> > > For me, the name Oltak, sounds very
> Uralo-Altaic.
> > >
> > > Konushevci
> >
> > That name rang a bell.
> >
> >
>

http://gd.cnread.net/cnread1/ewjd/g/gibbon/hor/029.htm

> >
> > A Bastarnean Deldon. I've tried before to
> ascertain the provenance
> of
> > that remark, to no avail (eventually to find out
> what language the
> > Bastarneans spoke). Note that Gibbon heard the
> Odin story too.
> >
> > Torsten
> ************
> Dear Torsten,
> The reference is: Plinii Secundi, Naturalis
> Historiae, Book XVII 138.
>
> Best regards,
> Abdullah Konushevci

*****GK: The Pliny reference is incorrect, and
Torsten's URL doesn't work either. Remediable errors
and technical glitches perhaps, but, humorously, quite
fitting in connection with Torsten's endless pursuit
of his idee fixe. He claims not to be a religious
Odinist (no one ever accused him of that), but his
constant (if by now totally incoherent given the
number of variants he's essayed) reiteration of the
Snorri Odin fairy tale as historical fact certainly
qualifies for the epithet "Odinist lunacy". It was
clear nearly a year ago that this ideological
conviction was relentless and irreformable, and had
nothing to do with the pursuit of science. He was told
to desist by the moderator. We had some blissful peace
and quiet for a while. Now it's come back, at first
insidiously, and finally full blast. Has Piotr decided
to cancel his earlier ruling?******

>
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