Stelle ...; (Historia nea, 1.42 (ed. Ridley, p. 13).) [5082]

Basic Information

Keywords	Ethnonym: Gothi, [wurzel: Goth] Ethnonym: Heruli, [wurzel: Herul] Region: Pontus, [wurzel: Pont] Ethnonym: Scythae, [wurzel: Scyth]
ID	5082
Text	Historia nea (498 - 518) Zosimus
Quotation
Translation	By this time the remnants of the Scythians were so pleased with their previous raids that, together with the Heruli, Peuci and Goths, they assembled at the river Tyra which runs into the Black Sea. Here they had six thousand ships built, on which they embarked three hundred and twenty thousand men.
Quotation source	1.42 (ed. Ridley, p. 13).
Temporal Coverage	269 - 269
Associated use case(s)	Identical Strangers: The history of the Heruli between the 3rd and the 5th century: Salvatore Liccardo
Spatial Coverage Objects	<QuerySet [<Stelle: ...; (Historia nea, 1.42 (ed. Ridley, p. 13).) [5082]>]> - Heruli, [wurzel: Herul]
Comment	Zosimus mentions the Herules as one component of a larger confederation of barbaric gentes. The Herules were accompanied by the Peucini, a group known to Pliny the Elder and Tacitus, the Goths and “the remaining Scythians.” This definition reflects the attitude of the author in describing the ethnic distinctions among the barbarians. Following and only partially updating the pre-existing categories and ethnonyms known to Roman ethnographers, Zosimus recourses to an all-encompassing term putting under the same umbrella many of the different gentes that were in conflict with the Empire.