Theodoric the Goth
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01HVGBI06 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 457 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Terrible reproduction of a classic text Daniel A. Hunt Whoever "General Books" is, this company has done an absolutely horrendous job reproducing the text of Thomas Hodgkin's classic work on Theodoric the Ostrogoth. Most inexcusable is an apparent total lack of proofreading. There are every kind of typographical error imaginable present in this book - and most are repeated over and over again, as if whatever format was used did not. The life of the greatest Romanized barbarian reviewed! david_axe@hotmail.com Theodoric was a 5th century Ostrogothic king whose tribe inhabited the remains of the Roman Empire in Italy until Byzantine troops ousted them in the 540s. Theodoric is renowned for his attempt to combine Roman, Christian, and barbarian elements into one society. Thomas Hodgkin's work is the foundational exploration of the history of Theodoric's life, drawing upon sources such
But now, in the middle of the fifth century, when Theodoric was born amid the rude splendour of an Ostrogothic palace, the unquestioned ascendancy of Rome over the nations of Europe was a thing of the past. The three sieges and the final sack of Rome by Alaric (410) revealed to the world that she was no longer “Roma Invicta”, and from that time forward every chief of Teutonic or Sclavonic barbarians who wandered with his tribe over the wasted plains between the Danube and the Adriatic, might cherish the secret hope that he, too, would one day be drawn in triumph up the Capitolian Hill, through the cowed ranks of the slavish citizens of Rome, and that he