“A talented immigrant is denied citizenship by an unjust empire … he survived a border policy that separated immigrant children from their families … his dream of achieving the basic dignity of ...
A review of Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, by Douglas Boin. In 410 AD, Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, breached Rome’s walls, likely with the aid of collaborators, and ...
Born c. 360 AD Died c. 411 AD Enemy of Rome: Created the Visigoths, a new 'super-tribe' which the Romans found impossible to defeat militarily. In 410 AD, he led the Visigoths to the first sack of ...
Alaric I was a chieftain of the Tervingian tribe who is often considered the first historical king of the Visigoths. He is best known for having sacked Rome in 410 A.D., an unheard-of event that he ...
Image caption, The first sack of Rome in 800 years helped hasten the end of the empire Tuesday marks the 1,600th anniversary of one of the turning points of European history - the first sack of ...
When Alaric, warrior-chief of the Visigoth nation, died of disease in A.D. 410, his people buried him in their traditional way: laying his body in a riverbed and allowing the current to cover it with ...
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 ...
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