victory (Victoria), as patriotic ideal, 94–95, 107
Virgil, 10, 38, 72, 165, 183
Virgin Mary, 186
Annunciation of, 116, 116
Visconti, Ennio Quirinio, 194–95
Visigoths, xi, 125–26, 174, 177, 179, 181, 182
Vouillé, Battle of (A.D. 507), 181
Vulcan (Roman god), 163
Wulfila (“Little Wolf”), 80–82, 81, 85
Xerxes, King of Persia, 88, 186
Yemen, 6
Zeno, Emperor of Rome, 178, 179
Zenobia of Palmyra, 46
Zeugma, 7
Zeus (Roman god), 57
zooarchaeology, 35
Zoroastrianism, 88–89
Zosimus, 41–43, 110, 114–15, 117, 119, 141, 149, 151–52, 153, 158, 171
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Title: Alaric the Goth : an outsider’s history of the fall of Rome / Douglas Boin.
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