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The Age of Attila

Disciplines:
history
rome
history/huns
ancient history/5th century

Summary

C.D. Gordon's 1960 account of 5th century Rome — the period of Attila the Hun and the final decades of the Western Roman Empire — primarily through translated Greek and Latin sources about the period.

Core Contribution

Provides primary source access to the 5th century Hun period — The Age of Attila compiles the fragmentary ancient accounts of the Hunnic invasions and the Roman response, making primary source material about this crucial period accessible to general readers.

Historical Influences

C.D. Gordon

Intellectual Lineage

C.D. Gordon University of Michigan Press

Allied Works

The Fall of the Roman Empire Empires and Barbarians

Contemporaries & Peers

The Fall of the Roman Empire The Inheritance of Rome

Minds Influenced

Late Roman historyHistory 102

Intellectual Posterity

The Age of Attila

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