Diocletian and the Goths
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3937664 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Brennan (0000-0002-0843-9785), P O Brennan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 142 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1088897 |
| OpenAlex | W2323040632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
THE HISTORY OF RELATIONS between Romans and Goths under Diocletian is bedevilled by the vagaries of the title Gothicus intermittently appearing or restored in several imperial titulatures, and used or ignored without argument. A recent magisterial reference work on the period ignores the title. 1 That, implying that Diocletian never assumed it, may be the right solution. It will not satisfy those who have accepted the title, while the impressive wealth of evidence for it remains unsifted. And even when the count of instances is reduced to its proper weight, the title Gothicus will not quite go away. Neither Diocletian nor Galerius wished to record the title Gothicus in any titulature from the time of the Currency Edict by September 301.2 The significance of that omission should not be denied by turning the title Carpicus, which always appears in these titulatures, into an equivalent of Gothicus,3 an expedient both improbable and unnecessary. For one thing, no instance, or restored instance, of Gothicus occupies the place in the order of titles otherwise occupied by Carpicus. More important, although equivalent and interchangeable titles sometimes occur, where one is ethnic and the other geographical (e.g., Persicus and Cappadocicus: ILS 8942 and 696), Gothi and Carpi were recognised by Rome as separate peoples in titulatures that record both titles.4 The only reason for proposing their equivalence in tetrarchic titulatures is the interpretation of Gothicus in a Constantinian titulature of 315 (ILS 695 [Sitifis]) as a reference to the sixth Carpic title won by Galerius.5 But Gothicus here, as on parallel African inscriptions of
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2002 - 2005 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |