After marrying Gala Placidia, he felt that he could rise to the ‘urbs regia’ and found a ‘Gotia’, but internal intrigues ended up with his wife humiliated and with him and his children underground
Ataúlfo, King of the Visigoths, by Raimundo Madrazo. 1858. (Prado Museum, Madrid).ABC
05/06/2023
Updated at 08:43h.
It was a debacle. In AD 410, the army of Alaric I ravaged Rome with blood and fire. The historian and philosopher Paul Orosiusa contemporary of the events, wrote that the fire spread throughout the city and devoured the buildings …
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