Re: That old Odin scenario ...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > > > So, what you're saying is that the burials of local nobility
> > > > in the 1st century BCE would always include objects of that
> > > > style?
> > >
> > > GK: Nearly always. Or other identifiable "eastern"
> > > luxury items (if the nobility was Iranic or Bosporan).
> >
> > Let's say some Dandarian nobility passed by and later migrated
> > south and west. Would they necessarily pick up local luxury
> > knick-knack, or (if they were big Rome-snobs) would they stay with
> > the wine taster set from back home (of which some of the glasses
> > were of Eastern Roman provenance)?
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> ****GK: What time frame are you looking at for this?****

72 - 58 BCE.

BTW it occurred to me that Caesar mentions that the Helvetii wanted to
emigrate because the felt boxed in in their area between the Jura and
the Rhine. But I think we discovered that the 'Germani threat' in that
area started with Ariovistus. Does that mean A. had earlier operated
north and est of the Rhine, in the later Swabia?

Is Ariovistus' involvement in Gaul the end of a campaign down the
Wetterau valley, which was actually the knock-on effect of similar
invasions further east as has happened later?

And further, if Pliny had mentioned in the Bella Germaniae that a
military leader of the Germani let himself be worshiped as a god,
would any monastery use precious time in copying it? Tacitus' Germania
survived in one copy only.


Torsten