Theoderic goes to the promised land: accidental propaganda in Jordanes's Gothic history?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Claims that Jordanes's Getica advanced Justinianic propaganda often point to its (alleged) critique of Theoderic the Ostrogoth. I argue instead that Jordanes intended a positive reading – but one point of praise was likely accidental. The Getica links Theoderic to the biblical figure of Moses, using narrative parallels between their careers and a specific biblical allusion. Although competent, Jordanes may never have recognized that Cassiodoran comparison, thanks to subtle divisions within the scriptural Latinity to which he and Cassiodorus belonged. Whatever his aims, Jordanes could not fully control Cassiodorus's rhetoric; the allusion's survival points to limits on conscious intertextuality in a diverse textual milieu.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it