Talk:Orosius

message: To Aldux -- I don't have anything against adding a link to Attalus' Home Page, but was it necessary to remove the link to the Latin Library at the same time? The material from Attalus was used with the permission of Attalus' webmaster -- cf http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/readme -- so copyright or netiquette is not an issue. Is there anything wrong with a little redundancy in the links? Apart from the texts by Orosius on each website, there might be other material at Attalus' Home Page as well as at the Latin Library, which Wiki-readers could find interesting. I don't want to step on anybody's toes, so I'll wait a while for an answer, but if I don't hear from anybody, I'll put the the link to the Latin Library back. GBWallenstein 01:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, you're probably right, so I've restored it. Cheers. Aldux 11:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. GBWallenstein 22:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Attalus

message: According to Alfred the Great and the Tradition of Ancient Geography 
Jerzy Linderski
Speculum, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul., 1964), pp. 434-439
doi:10.2307/2852498, O's history began with a geography of the world and was used as a basis or framework for his Geography. Kdammers 09:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography 

message: Why is there no mention that Orosius was supposed to take the relics to Braga and either abandoned or left them in Majorca? (see Avitus of Braga) 72.172.10.114 (talk) 21:48, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relics of St Stephen 

message: Are they supposed to refer to the Suebi, or to other Germanic peoples? Note that English, Swedish, etc. are Germanic languages, but we don't usually describe Americans, the English, or the Swedes, most of whom speak Germanic languages as Germans. So it seems misleading to describe Goths, Vandals, etc. who spoke a completely different branch of the Germanic languages as Germans, although it is at least arguable that one could refer to the Suebi as Germans. 96.231.17.143 (talk) 17:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who are "the Germans" here? 

message: In what sense is he 'Chalcedonian'? The article claims as much in the first line but doesn't explain itself. By its own reckoning, Orosius may well have been dead before the Council of Chalcedon anyway. 79.70.169.147 (talk) 10:24, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Chalcedonian'? 

message: This article reads like hagiography.  Clearly, many of the authors of the sources are necessarily totally focussed on their subject, but the end result of their use in this article is that it comes across as not objective at all.  There is no discussion of the actual content of his work or how it’s viewed as history today (or not).  One person’s opinion that Graeco-Roman historians “always tried to give a positive impression of their "enemies"” is given undue prominence.  There’s a very weird sentence that seems like an argument lifted straight from a source without context — “The date of the book is not our main focus here…”.  If not from the source, then it is making an argument in a Wikpedia article, which is worse. ⚜ Moilleadóir ✍ 04:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hagiography