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

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

> >
> > > I was wondering why Jordanes thinks 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.
>
> Erh, hm, well, perhaps not.

****GK: Particularly since Jordanes thought the Getae
(Dacians) were Goths(:=)))*****



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