What attracts you to Late Rome?

[Quintus Aurelius Lepidus]

Nothing. The Romans had lost it. A small army that depended on barbarians. No economy to speak of.
Endless civil war. A splendid example of what NOT to do. But something to emulate? Definitely not. They lost, they were losers, end of story.

that's what i thought too, firstly. in my opinion, the principate was the age of glory with victorious legions marching in every corner of the world and the dominate the age of downfall.

but then i read 'the late roman army' by dixon and 'the fall of rome' by goldsworthy.

now, i can really claim to have been converted. these 2 books showed me that this is not the case at all.

more books on the late roman period will follow during the following months.