Journal Article

PUBDB-2023-05341

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Facing the Plague and the Goths: A New Passage from the Scythica Vindobonensia (Codex Vindobonensis hist. gr. 73, fol. 192r, lines 13–30)

Martin, G. ; Gruskova, J. (Corresponding author)Extern*

2023
Duke University Cambridge, Mass.

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Abstract: This article presents for the first time 18 new lines of one manuscript page of the Scythica Vindobonensia alias Dexippus Vindobonensis, new historical fragments dealing with invasions of “Scythians” into the Roman Empire around the middle of the third century A.D. These fragments have been preserved in a palimpsest in the Austrian National Library in Vienna and are universally assigned to the Skythika of the contemporary historian Dexippus of Athens. The new text is part of a narrative of a Scythian invasion into Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece which has been dated to ca. 254 or the early 260s. It immediately precedes a section of two manuscript pages that has already been published (fols. 192v+ 193r). In addition to unknown information about the Gothic campaign, the new lines offer a contemporary glimpse into catastrophic events in Rome at that time, in particular the so-called ‘Plague of Cyprian.ʼ

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