A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and thedownfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho andAlaric, king of the Visigoths.
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world? In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.
