barbaroi

limes

foederati

socii

Julius Caesar (c.100-44 B.C.)

On the Gallic War

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-120 A.D.)

Annals (covers 14-68 A.D.)

Histories (covers 69-96 A.D.)

Agricola

Germania

Hadrian (117-138)

Picts

Marcus Antonius (160-181)

Carnuntum

Caracalla 212

THE GOTHS

Visigoths

Ostrogoths

VISIGOTHS OSTROGOTHS

Adrianople 378: Valens (364-378) Odoacer/Odovacar (433-493)

Moesia Theodoric (454-526)

ALARIC (370-410)

410: Rome sacked

Hispania

Vandals (with Alani and Suebi) HUNS

Attila “flagellum Dei” (434-453)

Vandalusia >> Andalusia 445 Bleda

Geiseric (428-477) 451 Aetius Catalaunian Fields (Châlon)

430 Hippo

439 Carthage

455 Rome

Romulus Augustulus (475-6)

Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430-490)

Visigoths

Ostrogoths

Theodoric (493:king of Italy-526)

Justinian (527-565)

Franks

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (470/75-c.524)

“magister officium”

Organon

Consolation of Philosophy

Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (490-585)

Vivarium

Introduction to Divine and Human Readings (Institutes)

Isidore of Seville (560-636)

Etymologies