Re: The Bastarnians

From: Torsten
Message: 67535
Date: 2011-05-11

> The question is: when did the Peucini take possession of Peuce?
> ****GK: Exactly. I'm musing on this.  Ps. Scymnos calls them "arrivals" or "arriving migrants" which is ambiguous enough. If they were there in 133-116, they must have been subjects of Skilur at that time (according to the Neapolis inscription).***

Accrding to Wikipedia, the Perigesis ad Nicomedem Regem of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Scymnus
was composed around 90BCE, not 133-116. Given tha it was dedicated to a king in the region,I don't think P-S would have dared susbstituting actual information with the words of a century-old source (Demetius of Callatis). We thus have a terminus postquem of ca. 90 BCE (or 74 BCE,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_IV 's
last year on the throne?).


Torsten