In the 520s, the Goth king of Italy, paranoid about a conspiracy in the Roman Senate, committed the “original sin” of executing the Roman aristocrat Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.

Belisarius was a renowned military commander with impressive battlefield achievements. Hampered by limited resources in both ...

The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write in the 510s that when “Odoacer, king of the Goths ... Roman government during the nearly 17 years he controlled the state. The ...

It isn’t as if the United States Senate is the first ... Gibbon dismisses. The Goths and Vandals were “more inclined to admire than abolish” Roman accomplishments. The most important reason ...

If the Roman Senate had been less intransigent about change ... it was a matter of refusing to integrate the Goths. And, in that case, Duncan sees the refusal to integrate new people into society ...

The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C., when Octavian, Julius Caesar's adopted son and heir, was granted the title "Augustus," meaning "revered one," by the Roman senate. This new title signified ...

After an imperial decree extended citizenship to all free-born people living in a Roman province in 212, it seemed possible the Goths would be comfortably assimilated into Roman society.

The translated text, detailed in the Journal of Roman Studies, describes the Thermopylae battle: At the start of the fragment, "battle columns" of Goths, a people who flourished in Europe whom the ...

The Goths were a Germanic people who rose to prominence following the turn of the first millennium. They're perhaps most known for attacking the fading Roman Empire in the third century ...