Название: Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric (Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity)
Автор: Michael Kulikowski
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521846331
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 238
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Late in August 410, Rome was starving, its residents were turning on one another, and, to make matters worse, the Gothic army camped at Rome's gates was restless. The Gothic commander was Alaric, a Roman general and barbarian chieftain. Leading an army that was short of food and potentially mutinous, sacking Rome was his only way forward. The old heart of Rome's empire fell to a conqueror's sword for the first time in eight hundred years. For three days, Alaric's Goths sacked the eternal city. In the words of a contemporary, the mother of the world had been murdered. Alaric's story is the culmination of a long historical journey by which the Goths came to be a part of the Roman world. Whether as friends or foes of the Roman empire, the Goths and their history are entwined with the larger history of Rome in the third and fourth centuries.







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