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.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Researchers used spectral imaging to read the writing on this fragment, which details the third-century Thermopylae battle. Credit: Vienna, Austrian National Library, manuscript Hist. gr. 73, fol. 193r lower text. Spectral imaging by the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library. Processed image by David Kelbe. © Project FWF P 24523-G19
Another Thermopylae battle? This is madness!
I see what you did there.
Patton was undoubtedly there.
yup, at first i thought it said Goths vs GEEKS, now that woulda been a fun fight to watch
There are some things WORTH FIGHTING FOR...unless you live under ‘no-fault divorce’.
All of America is under no fzult divorce.
The Sparta-Athens war of 400 BC had an Athenian naval victory, the aftermath of which saw the arrival of a bad storm that prevented reclaiming from the waters bodies of the killed.
The upshot was that the Athenian Assembly, the only democracy in the world, ended up, despite the pleading of Socrates, executing half a dozen of the generals responsible for the victory, but also of not retrieving the bodies of the fallen.
The Spartans with their experienced commanders then defeated the inexperienced Athenians easily. After a year under siege, Athens surrendered to Sparta and democracy was put to death.
The will of the people is no guarantee of anything.
And now the Greeks can’t even defeat an invasion of unarmed Muslims
Hey !
She Owes Me Money !
Not back then.
LOL!
A Goth who works with geeks.
[[The will of the people is no guarantee of anything.]]
The will of the people guarantees socialism.
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