Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Stilicho, the Vandal who Saved Rome, Ian Hughes

Stilicho, the Vandal who Saved Rome, Ian Hughes.

A study of the life and times of Flavius Stilicho, a half-Roman half-Vandal soldier and politician who struggled to preserve the Western Roman Empire in the last decades before the sack of Rome in 410 AD. Hughes includes some very useful material on the wider Roman world and army, making this a very useful book.

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