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Vandals in Greece
#1
Who are the sources for the Vandal's seabourne invasion of greece wherein the locals routed them at the beachhead somehwere around Taenarum?
Paul M. Bardunias
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#2
The source is Procopius. See his Wars, book III, chapter XXII.
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#3
History of the Wars by Procopius Translated by H. B. Dewing. Book 3: The Vandalic War

Now as for those Vandals who remained in their native land, neither remembrance nor any name of them has been preserved to my time.[59] For since, I suppose, they were a small number, they were either overpowered by the neighbouring barbarians or they were mingled with them not at all unwillingly and their name gave way to that of their conquerors. Indeed, when the Vandals were conquered at that time by Belisarius, no thought occurred to them to go from there to their ancestral homes. For they were not able to convey themselves suddenly from Libya to Europe, especially as they had no ships at hand, but paid the penalty[60] there for all the wrongs they had done the Romans and especially the Zacynthians. For at one time Gizeric, falling suddenly upon the towns in the Peloponnesus, undertook to assault Taenarum. And being repulsed from there and losing many of his followers he retired in complete disorder. And while he was still filled with anger on account of this, he touched at Zacynthus, and having killed many of those he met and enslaved five hundred of the notables, he sailed away soon afterwards. And when he reached the middle of the Adriatic Sea, as it is called, he cut into small pieces the bodies of the five hundred and threw them all about the sea without the least concern. But this happened in earlier times.
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#4
I found one more possible confirmation in Victor Vitensis' Historia Persecutionis , I.XVII. The campaigns of Geiseric are said to have reached Epirus and Greece.
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Thanks Guys!
Paul M. Bardunias
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