From: george knysh
Message: 57531
Date: 2008-04-17
>****GK: Agreed.****
> > GK: The Marcomanni initially appear as part of
> > Ariovistus' army in northern Gaul. Distinct from
> the
> > Suebi (58 BCE). So they are part of those
> "Germani"
> > Diviciacus complained as having recently crossed
> the
> > Rhine. Some 50 years later, under Maroboduus, they
> > migrate to Bohemia, and are thereafter considered
> to
> > be part of the Suebian complex. A very strong case
> can
> > be made for their identity with the West Przeworsk
> > populations which initially moved west from the
> Oder
> > basin into the Wetterau and Thuringia, and later
> > Bohemia. "Bordering" what? In Ariovistus' time
> most
> > likely the Suebians (in those eastern territories
> they
> > (the Marcomanni) vacated. Some have argued for the
> > Rhine border with the Gauls and Romans. However
> there
> > were also other Germanic populations there, so the
> > vacated territory in the east seems a stronger
> > hypothesis in the specific historical context of
> the
> > late 1rst c. BCE.
>
> Since we know they were called Marcomanni at the
> latest in
> Ariovistus' army they must have been border people
> before that.
> leas two others of the peoples of that army had****GK: This is the tricky part. We're not sure how
> Celtic names.
> Assuming for logistical reasons that all those
> tribes Ariovistus had
> persuaded to follow him then lived close together I
> think they must
> have been living on the border to the Volcae, where
> that was
> stationary for some centuries.
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> Torsten
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