03-09-2011, 09:10 AM
Just a note on your source--Kulikowski.
He's a smart man, but has gone out on the wrong limb before, perhaps from an innate distrust of ancient authors. In Rome's Gothic Wars, he slammed Jordanes real hard as a fictionalist, claiming that Jordanes' statement about the eastern Gothic kingdom extending almost to the Urals was bull****. Then, after RGW was published, archaeologists discovered a high-Gothic site on the river Samara.
As a rule, the old guys got their dates correct; maybe not all the details.:grin:
He's a smart man, but has gone out on the wrong limb before, perhaps from an innate distrust of ancient authors. In Rome's Gothic Wars, he slammed Jordanes real hard as a fictionalist, claiming that Jordanes' statement about the eastern Gothic kingdom extending almost to the Urals was bull****. Then, after RGW was published, archaeologists discovered a high-Gothic site on the river Samara.
As a rule, the old guys got their dates correct; maybe not all the details.:grin:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
