“Scythica Vindobonensia” by Dexippus(?): New Fragments on Decius’ Gothic Wars

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  • Gunther Martin Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Jana Grusková Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ABF Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, Austria and Katedra klasickej a semitskej filológie Univerzita Komenského Bratislava, Slovakia

Abstract

Two pages of a Vienna palimpsest, now deciphered, are found to contain a historical narrative, probably authored by Dexippus of Athens, which reveals new details of the Gothic invasion of 250/1.

Author Biography

Gunther Martin, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland

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2014-08-30

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