Editing Getica (section)

===Authors cited by ''Getica''===
The events, persons and peoples of ''Getica'' are put forward as being up to many centuries prior to the time of Jordanes. Taken at face value, they precede any other history of Scandinavia.

Jordanes does cite some writers well before his time, to whose works he had access but we do not, and other writers whose works are still extant. Mierow gives a summary of these, which is reviewed below, and also states other authors he believed were used by Jordanes but were not cited in ''Getica'' (refer to the Mierow source cited below). Mierow's list of cited authors is summarized as follows:

*Ablabius. Otherwise unknown historian, author of the work ''Gothorum gentis'' ("of the Gothic people"), now lost.
*[[Dexippus]] on the [[Vandals]] and the [[Heruli]].
*Dio, either [[Dio Cassius]] or [[Dio Chrysostom]], author of [[Getica (Dio)|another ''Getica'']]. Description of Britain in Jordanes.
*Fabius. Otherwise unknown, author of a work including the siege of [[Ravenna]], now missing.
*[[Josephus]] in IV.29, brief mention of the Goths as [[Scythians|Scyths]].
*[[Livy]], brief mention in II.10.
*[[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]] on the [[Amali]], V.43.
*[[Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus|Pompeius Trogus]], now known only in [[Justin (historian)|Justinus]]' epitome of ''Historiae Philippicae''.
*[[Pomponius Mela]].
*[[Priscus]]. Events concerning [[Attila]].
*[[Ptolemy]] on [[Scandinavia]] in ''Getica'' Part III.
*[[Strabo]]. Authority on Britain.
*[[Quintus Aurelius Symmachus|Symmachus]]. Copies of his copies from [[Julius Capitolinus]] on [[Maximinus I|Maximinus]].
*[[Tacitus]]. Authority on [[Roman Britain|Britain]].
*[[Virgil]].