Illyrology Explained

Illyrology or Illyrian studies is interdisciplinary academic field which focuses on scientific study of Illyria and Illyrians as a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archaeology. A practitioner of the discipline is called Illyrologist. His duty is to investigate the range of ancient Illyrian history, culture, art, language, heraldry, numizmatic, mythology, economics, ethics, etc. from c. 1000 BC up to the end of Roman rule around the 5th century.[1] [2]

History

Written studies about the Illyrians and Illyria, their history and cultures, go back to classical antiquity with Greco-Roman historiography and accounts, possibly beginning with Hesiod, Hecataeus and Herodotus and best known through such authors as Thucydides, Aristotle, Polybius,[3] Velleius Paterculus[4] Suetonius,[5] Pausanias, Appian,[6] Cassius Dio,[7] Diodorus Siculus,[8] Julius Caesar, Strabo, Titus Livius,[9] Pliny the Elder, Pomponius Mela, Polyaenus, St. Jerome[10] [11] etc.[12] Modern Illyrian studies originated in the late 18th and early 19th century, with the contributions of Johann Erich Thunmann,[13] Arthur Evans,[14] [15] [16] Hans Krahe,[17] etc. when many of these classical authors were rediscovered, published, translated and studied. In archaeological, cultural, historical and linguistic studies, research about the Illyrians, from the late 18th to the 21st century, has moved from the Illyrian movement and Pan-Illyrian theories, which identified as Illyrians some groups north of the Balkans and in Continental Europe (mainly in Central Europe), even in Northern Europe (Max Vasmer, 1928[18] Julius Pokorny, 1936[19]) to more well-defined groupings based on Illyrian onomastics and material anthropology since the 1960s as newer inscriptions were found and sites excavated.[20] [21]

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Illyrologists

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Notes and References

  1. News: Stipčević . Aleksandar . 2000 . Ilirologjia sot: Problemet dhe perspektivat . Illyrology Today:Problems and Perspectives . sq . Dardania Sacra (2) . Zagreb, Prishtinë . 15 September 2021. 43–56.
  2. Book: Cabanes, Pierre. Les illyriens de Bardulis à Genthios (IVe–IIe siècles avant J.-C.). The Illyrians from Bardylis to Gentius (4th – 2nd century BC). 1988. fr. SEDES. Paris. 2718138416.
  3. Bajrić. Amela. 2014. Illyrian Queen Teuta and the Illyrians in Polybius's passage on the Roman mission in Illyria. 1 . 29–56 . hr. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu. 46 .
  4. Velleius Paterculus.Compendium of Roman History / Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Loeb Classical Library, No. 152), 1867; Harvard University Press (1867); ASIN: B01JXR6R1Q
  5. Suetonius, The Life of The Twelve Caesars (The Life of Tiberius) Penguin Classics, revised edition, 2007;
  6. Book: Šašel Kos, Marjeta. Appian and Illyricum. 2005. National Museum of Slovenia (Narodni Muzej Slovenije). 978-961-6169-36-3. en.
  7. Cassius Dio. Roman History, Vol 6, Books. 51–65 (Loeb Classical Library), Loeb, 1989; ISBN 978-0674990920
  8. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0084:book=16:chapter=4&highlight=illyrian%2Cinfantry Diodorus Siculus, Library,16.4
  9. Livy. The History of Rome, Band 2 - The History of Rome, Livy. T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814. p. 324
  10. Book: Pevarello . Daniele . The Sentences of Sextus and the origins of Christian ascetiscism . 2013 . Mohr Siebeck . Tübingen . 978-3-16-152579-7 . 1 . 11 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160205151107/https://books.google.com/books?id=2Fgfxmz2EToC&pg=PA1&dq=jerome+illyrian&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCWoVChMIo5CUxPityAIVAbksCh29gAkB#v=onepage&q=jerome%20illyrian&f=false . 5 February 2016 . live .

  11. "Alongside Latin the native Illyrian survived in the country areas, and St Jerome claimed to speak his 'sermo gentilis' (Commentary on Isaiah 7.19)."

  12. Ilirët dhe Iliria te autorët antikë. Burime të zgjedhura për Historinë e Shqipërisë (Les Illyriens et l'Illyrie ches les auteurs antiques. Sources choisies pour l'Histoire d'Albanie), Vëll. I & II. Tiranë, Prishtinë, 1965, 1979, 2002. Ed. S.Islami. Lit.ed. B.Jubani. Prepared by: F.Prendi, H.Ceka, S.Islami and S.Anamali. Review: V. Kamsi.
  13. Book: Stipčević, Aleksandar. Aleksandar Stipčević

    . Aleksandar Stipčević. The Illyrians: history and culture. 1977. Noyes Press. 978-0-8155-5052-5. 73. The first one who clearly formulated the thesis of the Illyrian origin of the Albanians, was the German historian Johannes Thunmann in the eighteenth century..

  14. Book: Evans, Arthur John . Illyrian letters: a revised selection of correspondence from the llllyrian provinces of Bosnia, Herzegdvina, Montenegro, Albania, Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia during the troubled year 1877 . London . Longmans, Green and Co . 1878 .
  15. Book: Evans, Arthur John . Antiquarian researches in Illyricum. (Parts I and II). From The Archaeologia Vol. XLVIII . Westminster . Nichols and Sons . 1883 .
  16. Book: Evans, Arthur John . Antiquarian researches in Illyricum, Parts III, IV . Archaeologia . XLIX . London . 1885 . 1–167 .
  17. Krahe, Hans. Lexikon altillyrischer Personennamen - Dictionary of Old Illyrian personal names. (1929).
  18. Vasmer, Max. 1928 "Beitrage zur alten Geographie der Gebiete zwischen Elbe und Weichsel" Zeitschrift für slawische Philologie 5.360–370.
  19. Pokorny. Julius. Substrattheorie und Urheimat der Indogermanen. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft. 66. 1936. 69–91.
  20. Book: Mayer, Anton. Die Sprache der alten Illyrier, Volume 1. In Kommission bei R. M. Rohrer. 1957.
  21. Muzafer Korkuti: Parailirët, ilirët, arbërit: Histori e shkurtër. Tiranë: Toena. 2003. ISBN 99927-1-689-4

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