ANTIQUITY PAUL CARTLEDGE CONSIDERS THE BATTLE THAT BEGAN ROME'S DECLINE AND FALL

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 12, 2007| Author: PAUL CARTLEDGE | Copyright information

The Day of the Barbarians:

The First Battle in the Fall

of the Roman Empire

BY ALESSANDRO BARBERO

TR BY JOHN CULLEN

ATLANTIC, pounds 16.99, 180 pp

T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

This excellent book's original Italian title, Agosto 378 (AD),

is not perhaps a date that still lives in infamy for many of us, but the battle fought near Adrianopolis (modern Edirne in European Turkey) on that fateful day was certainly majo...

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