[gothic-l] Erulic and Gothic Naval Warfare in the Black Sea

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Tim's interpretation of Wolfram is wrong. The question of 
"Sarmatian" naval support concerns the sea expeditions of 255 and 
256 AD, where Zosimus, Historia nea, I 31 ff., names the Boranoi 
as attackers of Asia minor, based on the ships of the Bosporan 
realm in the Crimea (see Wolfram, Die Goten, 3rd ed., p.58 f.). The 
Boranoi usually are considered as Sarmatians. The ships they 
used were not built by them, they used the fleet of the Bosporan  
realm. The case of the Gothic/Herulian attack in 268/69 AD is 
different. It started from the Maeotis and the mouth of the Dnjestr 
and Zosimus, I 42, expressly tells us that then ships were built by 
the invaders (see Wolfram, Die Goten, 62-64).
For further information see: 
 
Andreas Schwarcz, Die gotischen Seezüge des 3. Jahrhunderts. 
In: Die Schwarzmeerküste in der Spätantike und im frühen 
Mittelalter, ed.Renate Pillinger, Andreas pülz und Hermann 
Vetters. Schriften der Balkankommission der Österreichischen 
Akademie der Wissenschaften Antiquarische Abteilung 18. Wien 
1992, pp.47-57

Maciej Salamon, The Chronology of Gothic Incursions into Asia 
minor in the IIIrd century AD. In: Eos 59 (1971) pp.109-139 

And, forigive my bluntness, Bertil, your connection between 
Austrian gothicism (a phenomenon of the fifteenth and sixteenth 
century in the court historiography of the emperors Frederick III, 
Maximilian I and Ferdinand I) and Herwig Wolfram as a modern and 
internationally renowned historian) is sheer nonsense.

Kind regards
         Andreas Schwarcz     
Ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universität Wien
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A-1010 Wien
Österreich
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