Talk:Athanaric

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This page is idential to: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Athanaric . I don't know which came first. - IstvanWolf 05:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Athanaric was not king/judge of the Visigoths, but of the Terwingi. After the demise of the Terwingi at the end of the 4th century the Visi or Vesi emerged. Much later ancient scholars created the term Visigoths analogue to the name Ostrogoths. Again, Athanaric would not have known anything about Visigoths of whom this article claims he was king.

Unless someone responds to user 193.134.254.145's concerns above I will replace all references to the [[Visigoth|Visigoths}} with references to the Thervingi and port the Fritigern vs. Athanaric? section from the Fritigern article. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Fritigern was a king, so there is no reason to include him in the preceded by section. Jacob Haller 03:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"His Gothic name, Athanareiks, means "king and athans "edel" s. *athal;athal "edel" s. *othal; s. germ."EDEL-KING" ". I'm not sure. "At(t)(h)a" = "father". The Gothic name "Athalaric" means "Edel-King", not "Athanaric". -- G. Calabria (talk) 06:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright so.. I think Athanaric deserves to be fixed up a bit. Athanaric was not a king at all. He was a judge. When the Emperor Valens mistakingly called him a King he corrected him and said he was a Judge, "for a judge reminds people of wisdom, where as a King reminds people only of power". Tervengi Judges were elected positions (not hereditary kingship ones). King/Judge are not synonymous. At least no more synonymous than Prime Minister and King are..

Also the person far above me is correct, the term Visigoth didn't exist yet. However that doesn't mean he wasn't a Visigoth. Just because we invented a new term to describe an old thing, doesn't mean the new term is incorrect. That's like saying Aztec weren't Native Americans because the term 'Native Americans' wouldn't be created for centuries after their demise. What I am getting at is maybe we just make a note that he was a Tervingi Judge and that the Tervingi are more popularly known as Visigoth and then go from there.. or something like that.. --ShieldDane (talk) 07:15, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Overhaul

Well, folks, I could not endure the nonsense supplied by Jordanes and retold here; so I mended the part about the final days of Athanaric and the supposed treaty. I trust no one is hurt or willing to revert this, is there?Romanus451 (talk) 19:25, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

-- nonsense supplied by Jordanes Could you please elaborate? Where are other sources to compare?

accidental deletion

the page was accidentially deleted because it had been edited by a banned user. We do not habitually delete any article that happens to be touched by a banned editor. The article as it stood before the incident is here: [1]. --dab (𒁳) 13:01, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, many apologies, not sure how that happened. Dougweller (talk) 13:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]