Talk:Burebista
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How do we know that Burebista/"Bu-ere-bu-ist-as" really means "the one that is not" ? Bogdan | Talk 10:13, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Can we get some better sourcing here? Chapter and verse from Strabo/Ammianus/whoever would be nice, but a reference to a (preferably English-language) secondary source would be okay too. This sounds like a really fascinating chapter in ancient history, and I'd like to find out more. Bacchiad 20:48, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Getica
- His adviser was the Great Priest Deceneus, who instructed the Thracians to live according to the Belagines Laws [...] . He went to Egypt, where he taught the Egyptian priests the sacerdotal mysteries of the Pelasgians, then returned to Dacia where, together with Burebista he unified both the Thracians both spiritually and politically.
this is what Jordanes claims about Dicineus and Buruista, in his Getica, but Jordanes also claims that the Getae were the Goths, so perhaps an advertisment/caution should be provided, that this is what Jordanes wrote -- Criztu 17:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Jordanes used as source of his writings some works that are now lost. He mistaken the Goths with the Getae, so the first part of his works is actually about the Getae (Burebista, Decebal, etc), and only the latter part is about the Goths. Bogdan | Talk 18:32, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Burebista conference
We need to find as many of the attested forms of his name as possible: Burebista, Boerebostes (?), etc. etc.. Compare to Tarabostes and Rubobostes (though I've seen an internet site claim that Rubobostes is a misrendering of Burobostes). See also Albanian karabishte (stag beetle). Alex 06:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
