Author: Jordanes
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: goths, deeds, origin
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1437509746
ISBN-13: 9781437509748

Part of a Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Princeton University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy slated by CHARLES C. MIEROW

Authors:Arne Sby Christensen, Arne Soby Christinsen,
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: migration, myth, studies, gothic, jordanes, history, cassiodorus
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2002-09
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 8772897104
ISBN-13: 9788772897103

A study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus’s Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Gree