Ancient Rome · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Alaric’s sack of Rome (410)
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24 Aug 410 — Alaric’s Goths, refused land and pay for a decade, enter by the Salarian Gate. Three days of looting; the world’s psychological capital falls. Jerome: “the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken.”
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- Adrianople and the sack of Rome (chapter 10 of Ancient Rome)
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- The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
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