{"product_id":"2940013189980","title":"The Origins and Deeds of the Goths (Formatted with TOC)","description":"Jordanes was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat best known for writing histories about Rome and the Goths. While he also wrote Romana about the history of Rome, his best-known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551. It is the only extant classical work dealing with the early history of the Goths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJordanes was asked by a friend to write this book as a summary of a multi-volume history of the Goths (now lost) by the statesman Cassiodorus. He was selected for his known interest in history (he was working on Rome's), his ability to write succinctly, and because of his own Gothic background. He had been a high-level notarius, or secretary, of a small client state on the Roman frontier in Moesia, in modern northern Bulgaria. As the only surviving work on Gothic origins, the Getica has been the object of much historical interest.\u003cbr\u003eThe Getica begins with a geography\/ethnography of the North, especially of Scandza (16-24). Jordanes lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in a distant past. The less fictional part of Jordanes' work begins when the Goths encounter Roman military forces in the 3rd century AD. The work concludes with the defeat of the Goths by the Byzantine general Belisarius. Jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the Goths after a history of 2030 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of The Origins and Deeds of the Goths is specially formatted with a Table of Contents.   ","brand":"Charles River Editors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145607233776,"sku":"2940013189980","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013189980_p0.jpg?v=1763578025","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013189980","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}