• The Romana is a Latin book written by Jordanes in the 6th century, being a short compendium of the most remarkable events from the creation down to the...
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    say bishop of Ravenna, but the name Jordanes is not known in the lists of bishops of Ravenna. Jordanes wrote Romana, about the history of Rome, but his...
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  • guerrilla leader Romana, Azerbaijan Romana, Sardinia, Italy Româna, Balş, Olt County, Romania Romana (Jordanes), a 6th-century history book Română, the Romanian...
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    Getica (redirect from Getica (Jordanes))
    correctness. Jordanes tells us in Getica that he interrupted work on the Romana to write Getica, and then finished Romana. Jordanes states in Romana that he...
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    century). Book XIV of the Chronographia of John Malalas (6th century). Romana (Jordanes, 6th century). Chronicle of Michael the Syrian (12th century). Chronicle...
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    the Battle on the Catalaunian Fields." Opuscula Romana 7:15 (1969): 259–276. Whately, Conor. "Jordanes, the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields and Constantinople...
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  • codex dated to the 8th–9th century, containing a copy of the Romana and Getica of Jordanes. It was destroyed in a fire on the night of July 15–16, 1880...
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    legions (12.21). Jerome, Chronicon, Ol. 258; Jordanes, Romana, 285. Zosimus, New History, i.28.1–2. Jordanes, Getica, 105. Varner 2004, p. 209. Eutropius...
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    Oium (section Jordanes)
    this story appears, the Getica, Jordanes also explained in his prefaces to it and his other surviving work, the Romana, that he had started the work with...
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    The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of...
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    Philostorgius, xii.4; Prosp. s.a. 425; Chronica gallica 452, 100; Jordanes, Romana, 328; Jones, p. 22 Hughes 2012, pp. 31–33. Bury 1923, p. 243. Bury...
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  • Christian and pagan authors may have influenced it. Jordanes himself, in the prefaces to his Romana and Getica, mentions that his project of writing the...
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  • Imperatoribus Romanis, 1997 Evagrius Scholasticus, ii.7 Hydatius, 160 Jordanes, Romana, 334 John of Antioch, fragments 200-201 Marcellinus Comes, s.a. 455...
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  • Empire. He is called "King of the Britons" by the 6th-century historian Jordanes, but the extent of his realm is unclear. Some Arthurian scholars identify...
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    (1986), pp. 344–371. Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, s. a. 476. See:Jordanes, Romana 344. Translator of Eugippius' The Life of Saint Severin, Ludwig Bieler...
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    Libius Severus. Cassiodorus, Chronicon, 1289; Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana, xv.2; John of Antioch, fragments 209.1–2, 207, translated by C.D. Gordon...
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    was assured to him. The use of "Mars" here is due to the interpretatio romana of Priscus. Hungarian legends refer to it simply as "az Isten kardja", the...
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  • afterwards, are obscure. Only a few short passages from Byzantine sources (Jordanes' Romana, the chronicle of Marcellinus Comes, and the Paschal Chronicle) are...
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  • Roman Empire Roman people Roman of Bulgaria Roman–Iranian relations Romana (Jordanes) Romanus (exarch) Romanos I Lekapenos Romanos II Romanos III Argyros...
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    similarly monstrous dog Garmr during the events of Ragnarök. The interpretatio romana generally renders the god as Mars, the ancient Roman war god, and it is...
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    source: they appear three times in the works of Jordanes, twice in his Getica and once in his Romana. They are also mentioned once in the Historia Langobardorum...
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    Heliciculture (redirect from Lumaca romana)
    indication that snails have been eaten since prehistoric times. Lumaca romana, (translation: Roman snail), was an ancient method of snail farming or heliciculture...
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    in his Getica (45.239–241) Malchus in Fragment 1 of his works Marcellinus Comes in his Annales Paschale campanum Paul the Deacon in his Historia Romana...
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    , London, 1975, p. 221. Jordanes, Getica 20, 109 (p.86 ed Theodor Mommsen (ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 5.1: Iordanis Romana et Getica, Berlin 1882 (...
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  • Ecclesiastica, vi. 39 ff. Zosimus, i. 21–23. Zonaras, xii. 19, 20. Jordanes, Romana, c. 16 ff. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol...
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  • Scholasticus, Historia ecclesiastica Damascius, Philosophycal History Jordanes, Romana Priscus, Historia Theodoret, Epistles Jones, A. H. M.; Martindale,...
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    editor (1866–1870, two volumes) Iordanis Romana et Getica (1882) was Mommsen's critical edition of Jordanes' The Origin and Deeds of the Goths and has...
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  • route. Less relevant is the other 6th-century source, Jordanes' Romana. Of Gothic ancestry, Jordanes served as a notarius for a Byzantine Master of the Soldiers...
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    intended the edict as a way to reaffirm his conservative vision of the Pax Romana and to reassure Rome's citizens that the empire was still secure, it nevertheless...
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    Foundation Kingdom overthrow Republic Empire History Pax Romana Principate Dominate Western Empire fall historiography of the fall Byzantine Empire decline...
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