The Dacians: Rome\'s Greatest Enemy?

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What we have here is a classic example of protochronism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protochronism

Wow, I had totally forgotten there was a specific term for it related to Romania....indeed pretty much anything that comes out of Russia and Eastern Europe. Have you seen what passes for Philology in places like Albania?

Not that we should laugh/be cruel in that this sort of thinking, e.g building a national past, was a huge part of Germany's involvement in the Classics and (Comparative) Philology years and years ago, in fact you can trace subtler reflections of these tendencies in the new world too, but that's something I leave to the receptionists.

Thanks though, your wikipedia article actually came at one hell of an opportune time. I wanted to ask, has anybody read:

Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia's (2010) Classics and National Cultures (Oxford)?

It's an edited volume, very interesting and full of some fantastic pieces include one on Romania/Bulgaria by Asen Kirin which is pertinent to this topic. I'd upload my digital copy of the article but Oxford sticks our ID on anything we pull from library resources I'm afraid. It should be a reasonably common book by now though.