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 ...
The sack of Rome by Alaric and his Goths has exerted an outsize influence on the Western imagination. It was a devastating event, and sent psychological aftershocks across the empire. On the night 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 ...
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