Return to hostilities Alaric soon resumed hostilities against the Eastern Empire after Theodosius died. Flavius Stilicho, the Eastern Empire's top general, soon chased him into, and through, Italy.In ...
The following list has the book and titles from the Visigothic Code.Book I: Concerning Legal AgenciesTitle I: The LawmakerTitle II: The LawBook II: Concerning the Conduct of CausesTitle I: Concerning ...
The Visigothic Kingdom was a Western European power in the 5th to 7th centuries, created in Gaul when the Romans lost their control of the western half of their empire. In response to the invasion of ...
Nomenclature: Vesi, Ostrogothi, Tervingi, Greuthungi Contemporaneous references to the Gothic tribes use the terms "Vesi" (Latin for Visigoths), "Ostrogothi" (Latin for Ostrogoths), "Tervingi", and "G ...
Stilicho was the son of a Roman soldier of Vandal birth and a provincial Roman woman. Despite his father's origins there is little to suggest that Stilicho considered himself anything other than a Rom ...
Arcadius was born in Hispania, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor. His father declared him an Augustus and co-ruler fo ...
In 325, Constantine I had facilitated the Church's bishops to convene the Council of Nicea, which affirmed the prevailing view that Jesus, the Son, was equal to the Father, one with the Father, and of ...
Theodosius was born in Cauca, Gallaecia, Hispania (according to Hydatius and Zosimus) or Italica, Baetica, Hispania (according to Marcellinus Comes, writing later), to a senior military officer, Theod ...
Appointment as emperor Valens and his brother Valentinian were both born in Cibalae (in present-day Croatia) into an Illyrian family in 328 and 321 respectively. They had grown up on estates purchased ...
We have a detailed account for the lead up to the battle from the Roman perspective from Ammianus Marcellinus, which forms the cumulating high point at the end of his history. The position in his hist ...
Julian invaded Persia with a force of 65,000 men, hoping to win a major victory against Persians in the east and replace Shah Shapur II with his brother Ormisdas. Julian made two blundering mistakes a ...
Julian wrote several works in Greek, some of which have come down to us.Budé Date Work Comment WrightI 356/7 Panegyric In Honour Of Constantius Written to reassure Constantius that he was on side. II ...
On 5 March 363, despite a series of omens against the campaign, Julian departed from Antioch with about 65,000-83,000, or 80,000–90,000 men, and headed north toward the Euphrates. En route he was met ...
Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 or 331 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius (consul in 335), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, a ...
From the very beginning of Sassanid rule an orthodox Pars-oriented Zoroastrian tradition would play an important part in influencing and lending legitimization to the state until its collapse in the m ...
