How an Empire Ends: Culture of the Goths

Ancient History Fangirl

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! In our last episode, we delved into the archaeology of the pre-Roman Goths. But what about Gothic culture? What do we know about pre-Roman Gothic culture, before the Goths were Romanized? To get a real sense of what is authentically Gothic is really difficult. We don’t have much information about the Goths’ daily lives or culture. We know almost nothing about their pre-Christian religious practices and beliefs. What we do have is a lot of military history from a Roman lens, and accounts from chroniclers like Tacitus—which have a lot of issues. In this episode, we try to peel back the layers and discover what we can about pre-Roman Gothic culture. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.3	In our last episode, we delved into the archaeology of the pre-Roman gotts,
1:29.4	or at least groups that have historically been aligned with them,
1:32.5	to see what they can tell us about these people.
1:34.9	We also looked at Gothic language and their own history as told by them,
1:38.4	or at least as told by this one guy,
1:40.7	a Romanized, Christianized goth named Jordains in the mid-500s AD who may have been engaging
1:46.1	in some imperialist mythmaking.
1:47.9	And some Christian mythmaking.
1:50.5	Right, but may also have been relying on Gothic oral histories available nowhere else, so we
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