Jordanes

Already in the Mommsen text edition of 1882 it was suggested that the very long name of Jordanes' father should be split into two parts: Alanovii Amuthis, both genitive forms.

But Cassiodorus does not supply any details about his correspondent or the size and nature of his pension, and Jordanes, whose history of the period abridges an earlier work by Cassiodorus, makes no mention of a pension.

Castalius would like a short book about the subject, and Jordanes obliges with an excerpt based on memory, possibly supplemented with other material he had access to.

Controversy Several Romanian and American historians wrote about Jordanes' error when considering that Getae were Goths.

In 451, he arrived in Belgica with an army exaggerated by Jordanes to half a million strong.

In Jordanes' history of the Goths (AD 551) the form Scandza is the name used for their original home, separated by sea from the land of Europe (chapter 1, 4).

In the pen of Jordanes, Herodotus' Getian demi-god Zalmoxis becomes a king of the Goths (39).

Jordanes also mentions that they fought with Hercules, and in the Trojan War, and that a smaller contingent of them endured in the Caucasus Mountains until the time of Alexander.

Jordanes described the Sclaveni having swamps and forests for their cities.

Jordanes' father's name would then be Amuth.

Jordanes, Getica 243 He took many military actions to strengthen his control over Italy and its neighboring areas.

Jordanes, Getica, ch. 277 Since Sebastian Tillemont in the 17th century, all three have been considered to be the same person.

Jordanes. p. 28. There they became divided into the Thervingi (later known as Visigoths ) ruled by the Balthi family and the Greuthungi ( Ostrogoths ) ruled by the Amali family.

Jordanes's date may actually be when she and the Gothic king first became more than captor and captive.

Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked " Troy and Ilium" just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon (108).

Jordanes writes that he was secretary to Candac, dux Alanorum, an otherwise unknown leader of the Alans.

Jordanes writes that in the early 4th century the Vandals had moved to the north of the Danube, but with the Marcomanni still to their west, and the Hermunduri still to their north.

Mommsen, however, dismissed suggestions to emend a corrupt text. citation Paria was Jordanes' paternal grandfather.

The form of address that Jordanes uses and his admonition that Vigilius "turn to God " would seem to rule out this identification.

The war lasted until Marcus Aurelius' death in 180. In the third century Jordanes claims that the Marcomanni paid tribute to the Goths, and that the princes of the Quadi were enslaved.