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Title: Theodoric the Goth
Barbarian Champion of Civilisation

Author: Thomas Hodgkin

Release Date: December 9, 2006 [EBook #20063]

Language: English

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HEROES OF THE NATIONS

EDITED BY

EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A.
FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD

FACTA CUCIS VIVENT OPEROSAQUE
GLORIA RERUM--OVID, IN LIVIAM, 255

THE HERO'S DEEDS AND HARD-WON
FAME SHALL LIVE

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THEODORIC THE GOTH

THE BARBARIAN CHAMPION OF CIVILISATION

BY THOMAS HODGKIN, D.C.L.

FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON; AUTHOR OF
"ITALY AND HER INVADERS, A.D. 376-553", ETC., ETC.

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK.

27 W. TWENTY-THIRD STREET
LONDON.

24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS.

1897

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
By G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
G.P. Putnam's Sons.

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PREFACE

In the following pages I have endeavoured to portray the life and
character of one of the most striking figures in the history of the
Early Middle Ages, Theodoric the Ostrogoth. The plan of the series, for
which this volume has been prepared, does not admit of minute discussion
of the authorities on which the history rests. In my case the omission
is of the less consequence, as I have treated the subject more fully in
my larger work, "Italy and her Invaders", and as also the chief
authorities are fully