Jun 28 2010
A Galatian invasion rebuffed:
The issue is whether that empire, whatever we may think of it, is going to remain ours, or whether we and it together are to fall into the hands of enemies. In such a crisis does anyone talk to me of clemency and compassion?” – Marcus Cato
Patriotic sentiments echo through the ages and so we publish the report of the rebuff of the barbarous Galatian hordes as rendered by the distinguished historian Dionysius of Rhodes.
I recently came across this post and I’ve had difficulty finding out anything about Dionysius of Rhodes. Would it be possible to tell me where you found this fragment? I’m very interested in it.
Is this a text written by you?
Thx in advance
GK
Its is an after action report of the outcome of an historical miniatures game. Rather than write a standard turn by turn description one of the more erudite participants wrote the report in Greek and thoughtfully provided a concurrent transaltion a la Loeb classic texts.
nice review, very creative…
GK
Abou,
I’m glad you found my little “history” convincing enough to wonder if it was actually a fragment from an ancient author. For some time now I have been amusing myself with composing after-action reports on FoG games in either Latin or Greek as appropriate. If I distribute them to my fellow players in the game, I provide an English translation formatted like a volume in the Loeb Library. The administrator asked me if I would like to post my last two efforts, so I did. Dionysius of Rhodes is my pseudonymous Greek historian, and Decimus Rabirius Galeatus my Roman one. So far as I know, there is no Greek or Roman historian with those names; so I say that they are two writers whose works were completely lost, but that fragments turn up from time to time on papyri found in the Egyptian desert.
Actually there is an ancient Greek historian (some 700 words surviving) and at least 5-6 more writers of that name…
George K,
Well, perhaps I shall have to think up another pseudonym.