Dagisthaeus (hostage)

Dagisthaeus (also Dagistheus , Dagisthaios ) was an Ostrogoth in the 5th century.

In Dagisthaeus , Dagistheus and Dagisthaios is the Latin or ancient Greek version of a really Gothic name, probably * Dagis-Thius was.

Dagisthaeus was probably a high nobleman in Theodoric the Great's Goths Association operating on the Balkan Peninsula . In the years 478/479 Theodoric was involved in armed conflicts with another Goth leader named Theoderich Strabo and the Eastern Roman Empire under Emperor Zenon . In 479 Zenon sent his prefect Adamantios to Epirus to negotiate with Theodoric (the great) about his return to Roman service. An agreement between Theodoric and Adamantius seemed to come about, which Theodoric wanted to seal by sending Dagisthaeus and an Ostrogothic general named Soas hostage to Adamantius. Ultimately, however, Zeno rejected the agreement.

Dagisthaeus could be the Dagisthaeus after whom some of the famous baths in Constantinople mentioned by John Malalas and Theophanes are named. Possibly he was an ancestor of the Roman general Dagisthaeus, who operated in the 6th century .

literature

John Robert Martindale: Dagistheus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 341.

Remarks

↑ Moritz Schönfeld : Dictionary of the old Germanic names of persons and peoples according to the tradition of classical antiquity . Heidelberg 1911, p. 70 .
↑ Malchus of Philadelphia , fragments 18; John Robert Martindale: Theodericus 7. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1077-1084 (here p. 1080).
↑ Johannes Malalas, Chronographia 435; Theophanes, Chronicle , annus mundi 6020, 6071.
^ For example, John Robert Martindale suspects: Dagistheus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 341 .; John Robert Martindale: Dagisthaeus 2. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , pp. 380-383 (here p. 380).

[1] Moritz Schönfeld : Dictionary of the old Germanic names of persons and peoples according to the tradition of classical antiquity . Heidelberg 1911, p. 70 .

[2] Malchus of Philadelphia , fragments 18; John Robert Martindale: Theodericus 7. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1077-1084 (here p. 1080).

[3] Johannes Malalas, Chronographia 435; Theophanes, Chronicle , annus mundi 6020, 6071.

[4] For example, John Robert Martindale suspects: Dagistheus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 341 .; John Robert Martindale: Dagisthaeus 2. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , pp. 380-383 (here p. 380).