09-25-2008, 03:03 PM
While not suggesting them related, Michael Kulikowski (Rome's Gothic Wars, p. 157) suggests, "In other circumstances, [Alaric] might have been a splendid anomaly, like Attila the Hun a generation later, a man whose historical impact was so completely the product of his singular personality as to defy parallel or sequel."
Two Theoderics (I and II), said to be distant relatives of Alaric by marriage, ruled the Aquitanian Goths in the fifth century.
Names do get passed around.
Two Theoderics (I and II), said to be distant relatives of Alaric by marriage, ruled the Aquitanian Goths in the fifth century.
Names do get passed around.
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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