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Alaric the Goth

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  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

  BOOKS BY DOUGLAS BOIN

  A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity

  Coming Out Christian in the Roman World

  Ostia in Late Antiquity

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

  Names: Boin, Douglas, author.

  Title: Alaric the Goth : an outsider’s history of the fall of Rome / Douglas Boin.

  Other titles: Outsider’s history of the fall of Rome

  Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020] |

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2019050501 |

  ISBN 9780393635690 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780393635706 (epub)

  Subjects: LCSH: Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, –410. | Visigoths—Kings and rulers—

  Biography. | Rome—History—Germanic Invasions, 3rd–6th centuries.

  Classification: LCC DG322.5.A53 B65 2020 | DDC 937/.09092 [B]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019050501

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