Re: Oltak

--- 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

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Dear Torsten,
The reference is: Plinii Secundi, Naturalis Historiae, Book XVII 138.

Best regards,
Abdullah Konushevci