王僧辩，还是左良玉——斯提里科和西罗马帝国的崩溃Wang Sengbian or Zuo Liangyu? Stilicho and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire

AD 403, the province of Italy, in the Western Roman Empire. Since the death of Emperor Theodosius I, the Roman Empire has been plunged into war. Fire and chaos are tearing Italy, the heartland of the Roman Empire, to pieces. - What was the relationship between the barbarians and Rome? Why exactly did Alaric rebel? - In Roman eyes, were the Germanic peoples noble savages or treacherous destroyers? - Stilicho, the Roman general of Vandal descent, appears in completely different guises in Machiavelli and in Gibbon. What accounts for these different interpretations? - What paradoxical stories surround the fall of Rome in 410? How did it differ from the fall of Constantinople in 1453? Niccolò Machiavelli, Florentine Histories Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Shiono Nanami, The Story of the Romans