In “Theoderic the Great,” the historian Hans-Ulrich Wiemer dissects the rule of the Goth king who nurtured Roman culture and impressed Machiavelli. By Jamie Kreiner When you purchase an independently ...

In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write ...

If there was a Roman version of “1066 and All That,” the satirical romp through English history, the year 476 would surely be one of those suspiciously bold lines in our collective historical ...

On Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer. What makes someone great? There is no standard metric for greatness, and the appellation “the Great” often comes with its ...

In popular culture, “Goths” are a subculture of young people who favor black clothes, dark eyeliner, and somber, morbid music. In antiquity, the Goths were a warlike Germanic people who rose to ...

Widely known as “Theoderic the Great,” the Ostrogothic King of Italy Theoderic (r. 489–526) has long been seen as not only the greatest ruler of the “Barbarian” successor states to the Western Empire, ...

An energetic account of the Emperor Theoderic’s rule shows how a barbarian invader led the revival of Rome, finds Ben Wilson. An angel mosaic commissioned by Theoderic for his Basilica of Saint ...

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