Theodoric the Goth

The Barbarian Champion of Civilisation

Biography & Memoir, Royalty, Nonfiction, History, Medieval

• Author: Thomas Hodgkin
• ISBN: 1230000148071
• Publisher: VolumesOfValue
• Publication: July 4, 2013
• Language: English

This edition features

• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS (abridged list)
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THEODORIC'S ANCESTORS
Ostrogoths and Visigoths — Nations forming the Gothic Confederacy — Royal family of the Amals — Gothic invasion in the Second Century — Hermanic the Ostrogoth — Inroad of the Huns — Defeat of the Ostrogoths — Defeat of the Visigoths — The Visigoths within the Empire — Battle of Adrianople — Alaric in Rome.
CHAPTER II. THE MIGHT OF ATTILA
The Ostrogoths under the Huns — The three royal brothers — Attila, king of the Huns — He menaces the Eastern Empire — He strikes at Gaul — Battle of the Catalaunian plains — Invasion of Italy — Destruction of Aquileia — Death of Attila and disruption of his Empire — Settlement of the Ostrogoths in Pannonia.
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CHAPTER XVIII. NARSES
CHAPTER XIX. THE THEODORIC OF SAGA