Re: Taurisci (Was:Re: Kossack's Conclusions)

En passant.....

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

I was wondering why Jordanes think

> Burebista attacks the
> Germans,
>

http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/Goths/Goths1.htm

> whereas Strabo thinks he attacked the Taurisci.
>

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/7E*.html

****GK: Perhaps Jordanes believed that Burebista's
great expedition against Critasirus went as far as
Raetia, which in his time was part of Frankish-ruled
Swabia. Not at all impossible.****




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