> Diodorus Siculus (cf. his Book 5 from section 19 on) certainly, by
> implication, includes what we call "Germani" among the Gauls or
> Galatae.
By omitting them. The
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastorf_culture
certainly existed when
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus
wrote his
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_historica
(60-30 BCE).
****GK: Yes. But archaeological culture meant nothing to these old writers, and the boundaries of Diodorus' "Gaul" or "Galatia" included the territory of Yastorf. They were all "Gauls" to him.*****
(GK)But there are
> many problems with Appian's labelings.
Such as?
****GK: His "Scythians" for one, which means a number of different things (Scythians proper, "northern barbarians", Maeotians, the populations of the eastern Black Sea litoral south of the Bosporus, possibly the inner Sarmatians east of the Don and north of the Bosporan kingdom.) And his "Taurians, Scythians" of secs. 15 and 69 sound a lot like the "Tauroscythians" of his epoch (I haven't consulted the Greek original though). They were Mithradates' closest "northern" allies in 88 BCE. Later, they seem misplaced in "Asia".****