On a Presumed Roman Military Expedition in the Valley of River Marisos at the Turn of the First Century A.D.
On a Presumed Roman Military Expedition in the Valley of River Marisos at the Turn of the First Century A.D.

Summary/Abstract: The turn between the 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.D. was marked by prolonged militaryconfrontations on the middle and lower Danube between the Romans and the warrior tribes of the Dacians.Eventually, the Empire ventured to the north in a series of punitive military actions directed at securing theDanubian frontier. Much discussed in the Romanian literature is the expedition of Marcus Vinicius, which,according to some authors had led a Roman expedition deep into the Dacian heartlands advancing on RiverMarisos (nowadays Mureș). The present paper analyses the sources on the topic, showing that the above interpretationis based on a misreading of Strabo; M. Vinicius had indeed fought against various barbarian tribes –including the Dacians – but on a very different front, located to the north of Illyricum, in modern-day Slovakia.

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