HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stilicho, Barbarian Kingdoms, Odoacer
12 Oct 2020
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Early 5th century roman general leads roman army to defeat gothic army. Considers himself as a roman, makes some mistakes, gets executed. A lot of people are of germanic background at this point. Probably would have been considered roman his entire life until they wanted something to blame him for - the roman army becomes heavily barbarianized. Right around 400, the romans adopt a more complicated military strategy. Federate (a war lords band of men) Battle of the catalaunian fields (chalons) 451 -hunnic. Army (under attila) suevi, franks, bungundians, gepids, goths, huns. Roman army (under aetius, general of the germanic origin) In the early 470"s he became a general. He was given command of a bunch of federate troops. Romulus agustulus was emperor (his father was a germanic official) Odoacer was on the outs with romulus"s dad and so exiles him. Odoacer instead of becoming emperor himself decides to call himself king of italy, with the backing of eastern rome.
