02-25-2007, 10:45 PM
Absolutely.
One of the central contentions of Michael Kulikowski's Rome's Gothic Wars (Cambridge, 2007) is that Alaric was simultaneously a magister militum charged with defending Rome and a Gothic chieftain--maybe king--when he sacked Rome in 410. As he writes in his Prologue (p. i) "In the early fifth century, the line between Roman regiment and barbarian horde was a fine one."
One of the central contentions of Michael Kulikowski's Rome's Gothic Wars (Cambridge, 2007) is that Alaric was simultaneously a magister militum charged with defending Rome and a Gothic chieftain--maybe king--when he sacked Rome in 410. As he writes in his Prologue (p. i) "In the early fifth century, the line between Roman regiment and barbarian horde was a fine one."
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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