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Goths vs. Greeks: Epic Ancient Battle Revealed in Newfound Text [3rd c AD, Thermopylae]
LiveScience (via CachedView.com) ^ | March 18, 2016 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 03/20/2016 5:08:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Fragments of an ancient Greek text telling of an invasion of Greece by the Goths during the third century A.D. have been discovered in the Austrian National Library. The text includes a battle fought at the pass of Thermopylae.

Researchers used spectral imaging to enhance the fragments, making it possible to read them. The analysis suggests the fragments were copied in the 11th century A.D. and are from a text that was written in the third-century A.D. by an Athens writer named Dexippus.

During Dexippus' life, Greece (part of the Roman Empire) and Rome struggled to repel a series of Gothic invasions...

In the text, Dexippus said the commander of the Greek force, a general named Marianus, tried to raise morale by reminding the Greeks of the battles their ancestors had fought at Thermopylae in the past, including the famous fifth-century B.C. battle between the Persians and a Spartan-led force...

The Thermopylae fragment is one of several written by Dexippus, discovered in the Austrian National Library book, that discuss the invasion of Greece by the Goths. The Thermopylae battle fragment was first published in 2014 in German in the journal Wiener Studies by Gunther Martin and Jana Grusková, researchers at the University of Bern and Comenius University in Bratislava, respectively.

Martin and Grusková have published several articles in German and English on the other fragments. Some of the fragments tell of an attempt by the Roman Emperor Decius (who lived A.D. 201-251) to stop the Gothic forces, as described by Martin and Grusková in 2014 in the journal Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. In those fragments, Dexippus wrote that Emperor Decius suffered a series of setbacks, losing territory and men.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: battle; decius; dexippus; godsgravesglyphs; goths; gothsgravesglyphs; gothsgravesgreeks; greece; greeks; gunthermartin; janagruskova; marianus; romanempire; thermopylae
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To: SunkenCiv
Greeeks vs. Goths?
That's hard to say...


21 posted on 03/21/2016 6:03:33 AM PDT by BroJoeK (ea little historical perspective...)
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To: shibumi
LOL!!! 100%... who woulda thought it'd be the geeks
22 posted on 03/21/2016 7:11:08 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: heye2monn

Sad but true. It is human nature to leech off the productive. We should be grateful for life in post-WWII up until GHW Bush took office; we’ll not see the like of freedom again, trampled as it was.


23 posted on 03/21/2016 10:07:04 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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