Alaric the Goth. By Douglas Boin.W.W. Norton; 272 pages; $26.95 and £19.99. THE SMOKE began to rise above the orange-tiled roofs of the eternal city on August 24th 410AD. The watchmen had not seen the ...
In the late 4th and early 5th centuries, the Goths pressured by the Huns entered Roman territories, culminating in the catastrophic Battle of Adrianople in 378 CE, where they decimated a Roman army ...
Researchers present the results of an analysis of plant, animal and human remains, reconstructing both the diets and geographic origins of the inhabitants of Portus, the maritime port of Imperial Rome ...