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Full Description
The central theme of this book is the relationship between the `public' and `private' lives of the men who were involved in the politics of the western Roman Empire in the later fourth and early fifth centuries. A postscript updates the book with regard to the last fifteen years of related scholarly research.
Contents
The governing classes; the ascendany of Ausonius; the accession of Theodosius; Christianity and the court - Constantinople; the provincial upper classes - evangelism and heresy; the usurpation of Maximus; Christianity and the court - Milan; Theodosius and the West; the regime of Stilicho; Alaric, Rome, Ravenna; Gaul and Spain (406-418); "Ordo Renascendi" - Gaul, Italy; East and West; Olympiodorus and Rome.