[gothic-l] New book on the Goths

[faltin2001]

List members may be interested to know that the following book on 
Goths has become available. The summary is from the publisher's web-
site:

Christensen, Arne Søby: Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the 
Goths Studies in a Migration Myth, 2002, 391 pages, ISBN 87-7289-710-
4 Prices Dkr. 298, £27, $37, € 43 

"A study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as 
told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed 
they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus 
giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this 
narrative in Cassiodorus's Gothic history, which is now lost. The 
present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base 
their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the 
Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their 
information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and 
Romans, however, did not know of the Goths till the middle of the 
third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a 
Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of 
foreign peoples partly by using the narratives about other peoples' 
history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the 
Migrations therefore must be reconsidered."



Cheers
Dirk 


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