[gothic-l] Re: Hachmann and Pytheas

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Already Dieter Stichtenoth, Pytheas von Marseille, Über das 
Weltmeer. Die Fragmente übersetzt und erläutert. Böhlau, Köln, 
Graz 1959, pp.30-32 and 88-90, pointed out that Plinius supplanted 
the Lugii, which he found in the text of Pytheas he used, by the 
Goths, because by his time the Gutones were geographically in 
the positions formerly occupied by the Lugii. Plinius did the same 
with the terms Albion and Britannia. he exchanged the older word 
against the contemporyry geographic name. The oldest source 
transmitting fragments of Pytheas is Apollonios of Rhodios in his 
epic "The Argonauts, chant IV, and he gives ll.645 f "Kelts and 
Ligyans", in the geographic position, where Plinius has Gutones. 
As I already remarked several times, Pytheas had no Goths and 
there is no evidence at all for Goths 300 BC.
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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