in the first century AD inscription of Flavius Dizalas. [ 5 ] According to Romanian linguist and Thracologist Sorin Mihai Olteanu, the ethnonym Thraikios (Θρᾴκιος: Ancient Greek for "Thracian") appears to have the same etymology as Graikos (Γραικός). [ 5 ]   My thological foundation In Greek mythology , Thrax (by his