--- alexandru_mg3 <
alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
Dear Marius,
I wanted to make a few comments to a previous post of
yours, but seem to have mislaid it...
I just want to say that Ptolemy may not be all that
reliable as to specific dates, unless there is
corroborating evidence, or his own context suggests
it. Why would you say that the toponyms you listed are
necessarily from the 3rd c. BC rather than from the
1rst or 2nd c. AD?
Also. Just how do you argue for a Dacian presence in
the territory of contemporary Albania in the period in
question? Strabo does not confirm it, and Pliny only
knows them in the Hungarian plain prior to ca. 45 AD,
after which they were pushed into the mountains and
forests of Transylvania by the Yazigs.
George (Yurij) K.
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