The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454–526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving “warrior nation� from the periphery of the Roman world into a standing army that protected his taxpaying Roman subjects with the support of the Roman elite. With a ruling strategy of “integration through separation,� Theoderic not only stabilized Italy but also extended his kingdom to the western Balkans, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula. Using sources as diverse as letters, poetry, coins, and mosaics, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer brings readers into the world of Theoderic’s court, from Gothic warriors and their families to the notables, artisans, and shopkeepers of Rome and Ravenna to the peasants and enslaved people who tilled the soil on grand rural estates. This book offers a fascinating history of the leader who brought peace to Italy after the disintegration of the Roman Empire.

Das hellenistische Rhodos gilt in der modernen Forschung ganz uberwiegend als ein Staat, der aufgrund seiner "merkantilen Interessenstruktur" eine aussenpolitische Grundlinie verfolgt habe, die durch Bekampfung der Piraterie, Minimierung militarischer Gewaltanwendung, Neutralitat und das Eintreten fur ein "Gleichgewicht der Machte" gekennzeichnet gewesen sei. Dieses Modell eines "friedlichen Handelsstaates" hat den Blick dafur verstellt, dass die Rhodier wahrend der Jahre 220 bis 168 in fur sie wichtigen Regionen nachweislich dynamisch und expansiv agierten. Auch wurde ubersehen, dass sie dort, wo dies fur sie erfolgversprechend war, durchaus auch militarische Gewalt einsetzten. Durch ihren Angriff auf Philipp V. und den anschliessenden Appell an Rom, die Beteiligung am Krieg der Romer gegen Antiochos III. sowie die Neutralitat im Krieg der Romer gegen Perseus haben die Rhodier das Ende ihrer Unabhangigkeit selbst mit herbeigefuhrt. Aus dem Inhalt: Zur Kritik der literarischen Quellen Vom Synoikismos bis zur Abwehr des Stadtebelagerers Rhodos und die Ptolemaer im 3. Jahrhundert Rhodos und die Piraterie Der 1. Kretische Krieg Der Krieg gegen Philipp V. Rhodos als Hegemonialmacht Der Krieg gegen Perseus und das Ende der rhodischen Unabhangigkeit Der 2. Kretische Krieg"

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