Tanausis

Tanausis

Tanausis was a legendary king of the Goths, according to Jordanes's "Getica" (5.47). The 19th century scholar A. von Gutschmid assigned his reign to 1323 BC - 1290 BC.

According to the "Getica", he was the Gothic king who halted the advance of the Egyptian armies of the Egyptian king Sesostris (whom Jordanes calls "Vesosis"). At a battle on the banks of the river Phasis, Tanausis routed the Egyptian king who had already conquered the Ethiopians and the Scythians.

The "Getica" states that Tanausis then pursued the Egyptians all the way back to the banks of the Nile, where the mighty river and the fortifications dissuaded him from slaying Sesotris "in his own land". The territory Tanausis had conquered in Asia was then bestowed upon his close friend Sornus, king of the Medes. Some of Tanausis' followers remained in the conquered lands, and Jordanes cites Pompeius Trogus as saying these were the origin of the Parthians, stating that in the Scythian language "Parthi" means "deserter" (5.48).

Following his death, Jordanes writes that the Goths worshipped Tanausis as a god.


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