Speaker 2
So can I side by there and go? How likely is it that Dixipus himself, the historian, actually did this? Because, you know, he could go the Greeks one there and that's thanks to me. Because I'm the one writing the account here. Yes.
Speaker 1
I mean, there are some historians who don't believe it. They think the speech actually wasn't delivered by Dixipus. Or Dixipus isn't, you know, the person who's leaving the account. So there are some...
Speaker 2
There are some... Yes, next out you there. This is literally history being written by the things. You know what
Speaker 1
I'm saying? Yes. It's also the problem is the text is fragmentary. So in the Byzantine period, the Emperor Constantine Paul Faganatus commissioned a historian who describes to excerpt great speeches from previous works. Yeah. So we don't actually have the full context. We just have the speech.
Speaker 2
Again, this is a local resistance though. That is right. What's the Roman contribution to
Speaker 1
resistance to the Goths? The main contribution is by Galianus' general, Marcus Aurelius Marcianus. Now Galianus himself may have come to the Balkans during this period. We don't quite know. Yeah. But certainly Marcus Aurelius Marcianus is a dux. He is a protector. There are statues erected in his honour in Thrace and in other regions of the Greek East for his role in pursuing and defeating the Harulean Goths. There are later stories that a treaty was reached with the leader and that he was granted consular ornaments by Galianus. But this is from St. Kellis who's a very, very late Byzantine author. So really it's Galianus' generals again doing the work. Okay.
