Sources on the Alans: A Critical CompilationAgustí Alemany The first exhaustive key to the sources to, and the proper names of the Alans. The scattered nature of sources and their dispersion in time, space and intermediary languages may explain the lack of a true comprehensive guide to this important ancient people, a nomadic tribe of Iranian stock, living from one end of the Eurasian steppes to the other. Documents from ancient up to medieval times regularly make, in a wide variety of languages, mention of the Alans. With his "Sources on the Alans" Agusti Alemany now provides us for the first time with a reliable and exhaustive handbook by collecting, classifying, translating (or summarizing) "all reports on the Alans" written in Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Byzantine, Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Georgian, Hebrew, Iranian, Mongol, Russian, Syriac and Chinese languages. The volume will also be frequently used as an "Onomasticon," With time tables and indices on authors and passages. A reference work in the truest sense. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Latin Sources | 11 |
Latin Literary Sources 1st4th c 11 | 30 |
Latin Epigraphical Sources | 75 |
Greek Epigraphical Sources | 111 |
Onomasticon | 112 |
Medieval Latin Literary Sources 13th14th c | 147 |
Onomasticon | 167 |
Onomasticon | 324 |
Hebrew Sources | 330 |
Iranian Sources | 338 |
Bactrian Epigraphical Sources | 345 |
Onomasticon | 369 |
Onomasticon | 377 |
Onomasticon | 386 |
Onomasticon | 395 |
Byzantine Literary Sources 11th15th c | 207 |
Onomasticon | 240 |
Onomasticon | 276 |
Onomasticon | 299 |
Onomasticon | 307 |
Chinese Literary Sources of the Yuan Period | 403 |
Onomasticon | 428 |
Chronological Table | 435 |
Bibliography | 449 |
Common terms and phrases
Abaev al-Lān Alanac Alani Alanorum Alanos Alans anthroponym Aorsi Arab Ardabur Armenian army Artašēs Asud attack Bāb Bachrach Baduer Barbarians battle Byzantine ByzTurc Caspian Caucasus Christian Chronicle Constantine CSHB Cumans Darband Darial defeated Emperor Empire ethnic name Eurasia Gate Gaul Georgian Golden Horde Goths Greek Hist History Huns Hydatius Iberia Ibn Rustah K'art'li Khazars king Kitāb Kulakovskij land later LatLit Massagetae mentions Minorsky Mommsen MGH AA Mongol mountain MPers OIran Orosius Oss.D Ossetes passage Pechenegs Persian PLRE prince quod region reign Rhoxolani river Roman Russian Sarmatians Sasanian Scythian Slav sources Suebi sunt trans troops Turkic Turks Vandals Visigoths Wusun Xiongnu Xorenac'i Yuezhi Αλανοί Αλανῶν γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ κατὰ μὲν μὴ οἱ ὅτι οὐ περὶ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε καὶ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς