freecounterpoint: Italy Falls to the Barbarian Horde

Monday, July 02, 2012

VisiGoths run rampant....Rome burns ..................................................................... The Lost Legions

Mr roT said...: Roman forum ruins are a nice touch, AA.; 7/02/2012 3:22 AM
Charly said...: 410, the return; 7/02/2012 5:07 PM
Tecumseh said...: Trajan was a Spaniard. Hah!; 7/02/2012 5:27 PM
Charly said...: Was Alaric, a Visigoth.; 7/02/2012 5:36 PM
Tecumseh said...: Traianus was born in Hispania Baetica -- Al-Andalus for Charly.; 7/02/2012 5:41 PM
Charly said...: 300 years before 410 though.; 7/02/2012 5:43 PM
Charly said...: 5th c not a good one for Rome. at least not in the west.; 7/02/2012 5:43 PM
Tecumseh said...: Who besides Charly is talking about AD 410? I prefer to talk about Traianus -- the high mark of the Empire -- and about his being Spaniard, which is fitting, given the 4-0 drubbing Trajan's co-Andalusians gave the modern-day Romans.; 7/02/2012 5:50 PM
Charly said...: Ahem, there is arguably visigothic blood in most spaniards...; 7/03/2012 5:26 AM
Tecumseh said...: Ahem, the Visigoths invaded the Roman Empire in 376, way after Trajan lived and died. So, once again -- the founder of Roman Dacia was not a Visigoth.; 7/03/2012 5:33 AM
Charly said...: That doesn't make 410 a bad analogy.; 7/03/2012 11:51 AM
Tecumseh said...: Two separate things, each has its own merits.; 7/03/2012 1:13 PM