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Getica
''De origine actibusque Getarum'' (''"The Origin and Deeds of the Getae/Goths"''),〔G. Costa, 32. Also: ''De Rebus Geticis'': O. Seyffert, 329; ''De Getarum (Gothorum) Origine et Rebus Gestis'': W. Smith, vol 2 page 607〕 or the ''Getica'',〔Jordanes, ''The Origin and Deeds of the Goths'', translated by C. Mierow〕 written in Late Latin by Jordanes (or ''Iordanes/Jornandes'') in or shortly after 551 AD,〔Peter Heather, ''Goths and Romans 332-489'', Oxford 1991, pp. 47-49 (year 552), Walter Goffart, ''The Narrators of Barbarian History'', Princeton 1988, p. 98 (year 554).〕 claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which is now lost.〔Herwig Wolfram, in ''Die Goten'', München 2001 (or its English translation, ''History of the Goths'', University of California Press 1988), consistently uses ''Origo Gothica'' as a name not only for the work of Cassiodorus, but also, very confusingly, for the ''Getica''. The source is Cassiodorus, ''Variae'' 9.25.5: "Originem Gothicam fecit esse historiam Romanam", which can be interpreted in different ways (see Walter Goffart, ''Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire'' (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), p. 57-59). Cassiodorus' lost work is more commonly referred to as ''Historia Gothorum'' or ''History of the Goths'' by modern scholarship (A.H. Merrills, ''History and Geography in Late Antiquity'' (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), p. 102 n. 9).〕 However, we cannot assess the extent to which Jordanes actually used the work of Cassiodorus (see the discussion below on the sources also used by Jordanes). It is significant as the only remaining contemporaneous resource that gives the full story of the origin and history of the Goths. Another aspect of this work is its information about the early history and the customs of Slavs.
==Synopsis of the work==
The ''Getica'' begins with a geography/ethnography of the North, especially of Scandza (16-24). He lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in a distant past. In the pen of Jordanes (or Cassiodorus), Herodotus' Getian demi-god Zalmoxis becomes a king of the Goths (39). Jordanes tells how the Goths sacked "Troy and Ilium" just after they had recovered somewhat from the war with Agamemnon (108). They are also said to have encountered the Egyptian pharaoh Vesosis (47). The less fictional part of Jordanes' work begins when the Goths encounter Roman military forces in the 3rd century AD. The work concludes with the defeat of the Goths by the Byzantine general Belisarius. Jordanes concludes the work by stating that he writes to honour those who were victorious over the Goths after a history of 2030 years.
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