War of Vesosis and Tanausis

The War of Vesosis and Tanausis is described in Jordanes' Getica, a controversial account of the Goths as happening in remote antiquity when Vesosis, king of the Egyptians, made war against them. Their king at that time was Tanausis.

In a battle at the river Phasis in Colchis (modern Georgia), Tanausis, king of the Goths, met Vesosis, king of the Egyptians, and there inflicted a severe defeat upon him, pursuing him even to Egypt.[1]

According to Arne Søby Christensen Jordanes assumed that the Scythians were the Goths and the women of the Goths Amazons. The war seems to be a retelling of an alleged war between the Scythians and Egyptians told by Orosius with Jordanes recasting a Scythian king as a king of the Goths.[2]

The War of Vesosis and Tanausis is a combination of transcription errors and fantasy.[3]

See also

• Sesostris

References

1. The Goths, by Jordanes, Chapter 6: War of Tanausis and Vesosis.
2. Christensen, Arne Søby (2002). Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 237-238. ISBN 978-87-7289-710-3. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
3. "The War that Never Was: Goths vs. Egyptians". EsoterX. 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2024-09-13.