Re: [tied] Re: Oltak

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:01 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Oltak


>>> Does Heyerdahl provide a reference to any Classical Armenian source
where the name Oltak (or similar) occurs?

>> No, that's why I asked. The book is in the semi-scientific style he
used for the general audience.

Well, that gender was precisely what Heyerdahl specialised in. Had he written scientific articles on the subject, we'd have some hope that such details could be verified.

> Here's a clue, though. Heyerdahl does say that the identification
Olthacus = Olkaba is endorsed by "the eminent Russian specialist in
the literature of the Antiquity, V.V. Latyshev."

Latyshev lived and worked more than a hundred years ago. Until we learn who, when and in what circumstances used the name "Olkaba" in the first place, we don't even know who's being identified with whom.


> "He is also mentioned as one of the subdued leaders in Gn. Pompeius' splendid triumph. In that text he is mentioned as ruler of the Colchians". Latyshev might be the author to look for for references.

> Wrt. that triumph: I remember one Pompeius releasing instead of
killing all the subdued leaders in his triumphs, with exception of
the kings, but there are two Gn. Pompeius (father and son, Strabo and Magnus) and now I forgot which. But if 'Odin' escaped from death in a Roman prison by a hair's breath, he'd have good reason to flee Azov, and take revenge in the later Germania.

It was Pompey the Great, of course, but I can't find any mention of Olthacus, Colchian or otherwise, among his captives.

Piotr