http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agri_decumates
I doubt that 'after the Suebi left, the area was again inhabited by Gauls.'
I made up my own history on what really happened then.
The asterisked *facts are my own.
Please criticize!
Timeline:
Note:
* Olthaces (VÉrÉθragna) = Olcaba = Wod-in- = Ariovistus = Harigasti
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48664
Traditional timeline
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/caesar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_consuls
106 BC
Pompey is born
100 BC
Caesar is born
89 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year89.html
Two Roman legions and Nicomedes' Bithynian forces attack Mithridates
88 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year88.html
http://tinyurl.com/2c3f6fn
the Sarmatian and Bastarnian wars restrained Mithridates
http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_03.html#%A715
[Mithridates] has allies also ready to obey his every command, Scythians, Taurians, Bastarnae, Thracians, Sarmatians,
and all those who dwell in the region of the Don and Danube and the Sea of Azov.
Tigranes of Armenia is his son-in-law and the Arsacid king of Parthia is his ally.
Mithridates massacres 80,000 Romans
Beginning of First Mithridatic War ( - 86 BC)
86 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year86.html
End of First Mithridatic War
83 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year83.html
Beginning of Second Mithridatic War (- 81 BC)
82 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year82.html
Caesar moves to Asia to avoid persecution by Sulla, serving under Marcus Minucius Thermus in Asia and Servilius Isauricus in Cilicia.
Goes on mission to Bithynia.
(* Caesar meets the Dardanian prince Olthaces
*( = VÉrÉþragna, Wardana) in Bithynia,
* tells him, he is worried that Lucullus would behave similarly to
* Sulla when he returns to Rome,
* persuades Olthaces to try to assassinate Lucullus)
Burebista takes over power in Dacia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burebista
81 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year81.html
End of Second Mithridatic War
80 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year80.html
Caesar returns to Rome
75 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year75.html
Caesar is kidnapped by Cilician pirates
Caesar has the pirates crucified, in spite of the wish of his superior to sell them as slaves.
73 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year73.html
Beginning of the Uprising of Spartacus
73 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year73.html
Beginning of Third Mithridatic War (- 63 BC)
Lucullus arrives in Athens
72 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year72.html
Olthaces (= Olcaba) tries to obtain interview with Lucullus
(* to assassinate him)
but gives up and flees to Mithridates VI
http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_16.html §79
http://tinyurl.com/25yqmos
71 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year71.html
End of Uprising of Spartacus
70 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year70.html
Mithridates flees to Armenia.
Lucullus demands for him to be handed over
68 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year68.html
Caesar quaestor
Caesar goes to Hispania as quaestor under Antistius Vetus
67 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year67.html
Caesar marries Pompeia
Lex Gabinia gives Pompeius a mandate to clear the Mediterranean of pirates.
66 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year66.html
65 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year65.html
Caesar was elected curule aedile and spent lavishly on games to win popular favor;
large loans from Crassus made these expenditures possible.
First Catilinarian conspiracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catilinarian_conspiracy
64 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year64.html
63 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year63.html
Mithridates VI plans invading Italy
http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_22.html#%A7109
*Mithridates VI gives Olthaces the task of invading Italy.
*Olthaces as leader (*wod-in-) of an army (*wod-)
*invades Przeworsk by 'Schlieffen plan'
*going around Burebista's Dacia
Mithridates VI commits suicide
End of Third Mithridatic War
*Olthaces, the wod-in- in Przeworsk,
*must give up attempt for 'Schlieffen plan' against Italy and
*reconsider his options
Second Catilinarian conspiracy,
Caesar and Crassus dump Catilina.
(* because Olthaces' project is on hold after Mithridates' death)
Cicero denounces Catilina
(*because the Allobroges have blown the cover on the conspiracy
*by going to the authorities)
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/sallust/catilinae.html
note esp. §42
Cato accuses Caesar of complicity.
The witness Lucius Tarquinius accuses Crassus of complicity.
http://tinyurl.com/247gqun
Crassus tells Cicero of incriminating letters sent to him of a plot
(* in other words, Crassus was in on the plan)
61
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year61.html
Caesar goes to Further Spain as propraetor
September 30th
Pompey's third triumph, after victories in the Mithridates war,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchis#Under_Pontus
Olthaces is led in it, not killed afterwards
http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_24.html §117
60
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year60.html
Burebista attacks and vanquishes the Celtic tribes of Boii and Taurisci
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burebista
(* Olthaces is stuck and has to evade Burebista through Przeworsk.)
Caesar returns from Spain
*Through
*Marcus Mettius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Mettius
*Caesar conspires with Olthaces
*about him providing cavalry for the invasion of Italy,
*gives him his sister Julia in marriage
http://tinyurl.com/26jgsw5
*with Agri Decumates (KadÅubek: Bavaria) as dowry.
*Caesar gets Crassus to send gold for equipping Olthaces' army for a *campaign towards the Helvetians in the Agri Decumates north of the
*Alps.
*Mettius delivers the gold.
Pompey dissolves his army.
* Since the threat of Pompey's army is gone:
First triumvirate. Caesar gives Pompey daughter Julia in marriage
* The triumvirate tells
* Olthaces all deals are off.
* Instead Olthaces/Ariovistus
* 1) marches to and goes to war
* against the Helvetians in the Agri Decumates,
* driving them all the way to Switzerland
* 2) marries the sister of Voccio, the king of Noricum,
* gets Norican swords
* 3) makes deal with Arverni and Sequani to help them against the
* Aedui.
* Now the conspiring triumvirate has a problem which must be solved,
* and fast.
59 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year59.html
Caesar consul
Lily Ross Taylor
On the Chronology of Caesar's First Consulship
The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 72, No. 3 (1951), pp. 254-268
January 1 or 2.
Caesar, presiding in the senate, proposed the first lex agraria. The law was apparently discussed at subsequent senatorial meetings which could have been held on January 5-6, 9-11, and 13-15. Before the law was voted on, certainly one and perhaps several contiones were called to present the bill to the people.
January 25-27.
Comitial days following a trinum nundinum when the law could be voted on. Bibulus reported an omen and, with the aid of three tribunes, attempted a veto.
January 28.
A veto was prevented by force, and the law was passed.
January 29.
Bibulus protested in the senate and then went home to shut himself up in his house until the last day of the year.
February, beginning.
The senators took oath to support the land law.
February to March.
Commissioners were elected to administer the land law. Vatinius passed a series of laws on kingdoms and principalities. After these had been voted on, he passed a law on challenging jurors, which had been promulgated at the beginning of his term.
March 1 to April 3.
Caesar proposed and passed the lex de rege Alexandrino and the lex de publicanis. As pontifex maximus, Caesar passed the curiate law transferring Clodius to the plebs.
January - April
Metellus Celer dies, as he was setting out for his province, Gallia Transalpina
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Cic.+Cael.+59
May 1.
Caesar proposed the lex Campana; it was probably voted on by the end of the month. About the same time he proposed and passed the law ratifying Pompey's acta.
About May 2-3.
The marriage of Pompey and Julia. The marriage of Caesar and Calpurnia took place about the same time.
May, after the beginning.
Vatinius proposed the lex de imperio Caesaris [by which Caesar is given the provinces of Illyricum and Gallia Cisalpina]. It was probably not voted on until early June.
58 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year58.html
Battle of Bibracte, Caesar defeats the Helvetii
Battle of Vosges, Caesar defeats Ariovistus (* = Olthaces)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vosges_%2858_BC%29
Ariovistus (* = Olthaces) escapes.
*Ariovistus (= Olthaces) stays in Magré, develops Runic alphabet on three staves.
*Ariovistus (= Olthaces) returns to his brother-in-law Voccio
55 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year55.html
Burebista begins conquest of the Black Seashore, subjugating the Greek fortresses from Olbia to Apollonia, as well as the Danubian Plain all the way to the Balkans.
Harigasti's helmet is deposited (*by Harigasti himself = Olthaces/Ariovistus), bearing his name (* in his own alphabet), and so are those of his priestly college
(* before they all go to war with Burebista)
48 BC Caesar
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year48.html
Burebista sides with Pompey against Caesar in the civil war, sending Akornion as ambassdor and military advisor
Pompey is murdered
44 BC
http://www.attalus.org/bc1/year44.html
Burebista is murdered
Caesar is murdered
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