Re: [tied] Herodotus

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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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).