Stelle ...; (Ecloga chronographica, None) [5084]

Basic Information

Keywords	Region: Byzantium, [wurzel: Byzanti] Ethnonym: Heruli, [wurzel: Herul] Region: Palus Maeotis, [wurzel: Maeot] Region: Pontus, [wurzel: Pont]
ID	5084
Text	Ecloga chronographica (784 - 806) George Syncellus
Quotation
Translation	Also at that time, the Ailouroi sailed with 500 ships through Lake Maiotis to the Pontos and seized Byzantion and Chrysopolis.
Quotation source	None
Temporal Coverage	267 - 268
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: ...; (Ecloga chronographica, None) [5084]>]> - Byzantium, [wurzel: Byzanti] <QuerySet [<Stelle: ...; (Ecloga chronographica, None) [5084]>]> - Palus Maeotis, [wurzel: Maeot]
Comment	George Syncellus, who was an adviser of the patriarch of Constantinople in the early 9th century, reports on an invasion led by the Herules in 267. For this enterprise, the Herules assembled 500 ships and sailed from the Maeotian Swamp towards Byzantium and Chrysopolis. For this raid, only this source mentions the Herules, while both the Historia Augusta and Zosimus describe the invaders either as Scythians or Goths.