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Goths Vs.Greeks: Epic battle revealed in newfound text
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| March 2016
| Owen Jarus
Posted on 06/30/2016 8:01:58 AM PDT by wildbill
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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: battle; decius; dexippus; godsgravesglyphs; goths; gothsgravesglyphs; gothsgravesgreeks; greece; greeks; gunthermartin; janagruskova; marianus; romanempire; thermopylae
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So many new bits of information from the ancient world are being revealed by new technology and the expansion of archeology into areas prviously unknown or unplumbed.
What a great time to be a history aficionado.
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:01:58 AM PDT
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wildbill
To: wildbill
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:10:39 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: wildbill
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:11:23 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: wildbill
It's what I do on the side....At age 72, I remember the old days when all my research meant days of viewing old documents after a long trip by auto.
Today it's a matter of knowing where to go for the best info.
To: wildbill
I thought the title read:
GOTHS vs GEEKS!........................
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:18:27 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: wildbill
All the corpses were dressed in black with multiple facial piercings. I love archaeology.
To: wildbill
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:23:56 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: wildbill
One of the oddities of history is the tribal migrations from Central Asia into Europe that lasted for more than a millennia. From the 5th Century BC barbarians of Ancient Greece (Scythia) to the Vandals, Goths and Huns that ended the Western Roman Empire to the Mongols (1200s AD) that conquered Eastern Europe and Islamic Persia, it seems that the usual movement went from east to west.
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:47:41 AM PDT
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SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: SandRat
They have a fondness for marching...
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posted on
06/30/2016 8:55:48 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Vaquero
wrong Goths? These Goths:
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posted on
06/30/2016 9:01:35 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: wildbill
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posted on
06/30/2016 9:24:59 AM PDT
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SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: rjsimmon
Ah the fake tattoo sleeves. Remember it well.
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posted on
06/30/2016 9:35:58 AM PDT
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Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vaquero
Ah the fake tattoo sleeves. Remember it well. Those were FAKE???
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06/30/2016 9:39:07 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: SES1066
The Turks also originally from Central Asia reached Vienna by the early 16th century. Don’t forget the Magyars who are still in Hungary or the Alans. One of my favorite characters is the Bulgar Khan Krum who drank from a gold inlaid skull of a Byzantine Emperor.
To: SES1066
Don’t stop at the shores of Europe. Think of the East-
West migration pattern from Europe to the Americas and then across those continents to the Pacific shores.
I wrote a long epic poem once that proposed a theory that there is a inherent tribal instinct to follow the sun.
Of course the Polynesians are the exception that either founders the theory or proves the rule.
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06/30/2016 9:53:30 AM PDT
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wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
They have a fondness for marching...In the movie "Oh What A Lovely War", there's a scene in the beginning where (from a dodgy memory) the French Ambassador questions the German ambassador as to why he is amassing troops on the border.
The German replies, "We like to keep busy."
BTW, a GREAT ironic movie about WWI in song and dance.
[snippet: Gen. Haig talking to God. "Please send us a great victory - before the Americans arrive."]
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06/30/2016 9:54:36 AM PDT
by
Oatka
(Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
To: wildbill
Sounds like a new Revenge of the Nerds movie...
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06/30/2016 10:00:02 AM PDT
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Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: wildbill
Get up early in the morning with the sun at your back and hours of forward movement before staring into the sun?
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06/30/2016 10:19:04 AM PDT
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GOPJ
("Elites' on both sides of the pond are scared the gravy train's ending - demographic warfare exposed)
To: Vaquero
Where’s PC Principal and the rest of his frat bros at the PC Deltas?
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06/30/2016 11:00:56 AM PDT
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VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: wildbill
I’m not real fond of Greeks, but I despise those goths even more. Dirty morose fools, just more depressed version of hippies.
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06/30/2016 12:11:17 PM PDT
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the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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