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The Gothic History of Jordanes

The Gothic History of Jordanes

Jordanes

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1503079791
ISBN13: 9781503079793
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 3 2014
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Jordanes, as he himself tells us a couple of times, was of Gothic descent and wrote this work as a summary of Cassiodorus' much longer treatment of the history of the Goths. Because Cassiodorus' book no longer survives, Jordanes' treatment is often our only source for some of the Gothic history it describes. He wrote the Getica during the later stages of the reign of Justinian, not too long after the demise of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy. Jordanes divided his work, apart from the brief introduction and conclusion, into four main sections reflected in the contents below. These are a Geographical Introduction; the United Goths; the Visigoths; and the Ostrogoths. Other large sections, such as the discussion of the Huns, he treats as digressions of a sort the more interesting or important of these have been added to the contents. Mierow prefaces his translation with a detailed literary analysis of all the topics in the text; this is not, however, reproduced here.

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