Re: Romanized Bastarnians

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

>
> Merry Christmas!

And likewise!

> --- On Sun, 12/25/11, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67060
>
> 89 BCE Mithridates allies himself with 'Cimbri, the Gallograecians,
> the Sarmatians, and the Bastarnians'
>
> 88 BCE 'the Sarmatian and Bastarnian wars restrained Mithridates'
>
> Did the Sarmatians and Bastarnians turn coat?
> Is a mixture of these two peoples = the Romanized Bastarnae entering
> Cimbrian Przeworsk?
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/68231
> http://vln.by/node/178
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> Or did the army Mithridates sent take over local Sarmatians and
> Bastarnians, later to be isolated by development in the south?
>
> Torsten
>
> ****GK: I would assume that the conflict with Sarmatians and
> Bastarnians took place at the beginning of the Marsian war, when
> things were going particularly badly for the Romans (i.e. in 91, 90,
> and part of 89 BCE.) Plutarch's text gives no dates. By 88 Rome was
> victorious and Mithradates' "kindnesses" had won over Sarmatians and
> Bastarnians.*****

So you want to reverse the sequence of those two events?
Offhand I can't think of anything that would preclude that.

I would like to somehow include the fact of the Romanized Bastarnae being avoided by their traditional cousins as a sign of them being at opposite sides of a war at this time.


Torsten