Alaric – Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 30 Part 1
Alaric may well be the best known German barbarian in Roman history. He was a Goth of high rank and bizarrely for someone who is mainly remembered for wrecking the empire, his role model was probably the man who was for a time to become his great enemy: Stilicho, whose military expertise had given him effective control of the Empire in the West.
