Kisné Cseh Julianna (szerk.): Tatabányai Múzeum 2010 - Tatabányai Múzeum Évkönyve 1. (Tatabánya, 2011)
Tokai Gábor: Hérodotosz ismeretei a Duna középső és felső szakaszáról
Hérodotosz ismeretei a Duna középső és felső szakaszáról 121 Herodotos’knowledge about middle and upper parts of the river Danube Tokai, Gábor This writing attend to investigate findings and conclusions about middle and upper parts of Istros (the river Danube) wh ich was taken by Herodotos (in: 11-33; IV-49; and V-9) through the concerned areas by a roughly introduction of geographical knowledge of precedig age of period of the Roman Empire. Seeing that, they may knew nearly nothing about the inner areas of Europe that time, the river-head territories of the Danube only as hazy notions had appeared in contemporary geographival writings (although that notions became more and more precious in advance to the priod of the Roman Empire). It seems to be more unambiguous that the middle part of the river (what is more, according some authors the river-head itself!) by other writers was defined as the flow of the river Száva. The Alpis and Kapris rivers — mentioned only by Herodotos-and traditionally was defined to as the Dráva and the Száva rivers would be easier defining punctually with so called Ombrikos folks sites, who lived around the river-heads of those two rivers. Herodotos mentioned them as Umbers, already they are Middle-ltalian citizens, the Ambilikoses, who once lived at the upper part of the Dráva - defining places by their settlements would give to us a more real picture - and which definition meaning that the hypothetical tributaries already are only one river, the Száva itself and then the river Kapris really is the river Kolapis (the Kulpa). This defining process also help us to found out the direction and territory of old citizens (called Sigynnes) of Slovenia who lived beyond the Istris, but despite these facts they lived close neighbouring with the North-Italian Venetians. If we regard to that some writers opinion is: the river-head of the Danube was near to the river-head quarters of the Száva river, can be point out, that they deduction based on a note of Herodotos too, who once mentioned Pyrene town in similar connection. It is obvious that ,.ad Pimm” Roman outpost was the eponymous cause of the note becouse of its similar sounding. Antik források Apollonius Apollonius Rhodius: The Argonaut ica (ford.: Seaton, R. C.) Cambridge - Massachusetts - London 1955. Hérodotosz Hérodotosz: A görög-perzsa háború. (Ford.: Muraközi Gyula) Bp. 1998. Strabón Strabón: Geógraphika. (Ford.: Földy József) Bp. 1977. Etimológiai szótárak DÉH 1968 Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque. Histoire des mots. I. Párizs 1968. GDH 1857 Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch I. Braunschweig 1857. GEW I960 Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch I. Heidelberg I960. Pokorny 1959 Pokorny, Julius: Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch I. Bd. Bern-München 1959. Irodalom Boardman 1988 Boardman, John (ed.): The Cambridge Ancient History. Plates to Volume IV - Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525 to 479 B.C. Cambridge-New York-New Rochelle-Melbourne- Sydney 1988. Frey 1966 Frey, Otto-Herman: Der Ostalpenraum und die antike Welt in der frühen Eisenzeit. Germania 44/1 (1966)48-66. Fröhlich 1895 Fröhlich Róbert: Magyarország területe a római hódítás előtt. I. fej.: A legelső földrajzi tudósítások. In: Szilágyi Sándor (szerk.): A magyar nemzet története. I. Bp. I 895.
