Klasszikus, régi görög és latin irodalom és művészetek
Nyelvek és irodalom
Nyelvészet
Specifikus irodalom
Történettudomány és régészet
Tudomány
Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli’s Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus is an unparalleled source for
the history of natural sciences, and far less exploited as a source for the history
of archaeology and philology, in spite of the great amount of data given in its Book
II. His epigraphic descriptions are well known and certainly important, but the chief
importance of his archaeological oeuvre lies in the descriptions of military objects,
where often he claims the absolute priority. A very interesting enterprise of his
was an attempt for reconstructing the route of Trajan’s 2nd Dacian War, mostly without
written sources, based on his knowledge of the scene, which he had gained while warfaring
on the very spot. He did several observations on the late antique wall systems of
the Great Hungarian Plain and of Muntenia too, which are not quite out of date even
today. But sometimes he erred, because he took practically everything as the vestiges
of Roman military activities: thus e.g. the mammouth finds of South Hungary, which
he thought to be the remnants of antique elephant warfare.
