Empire in Crisis: Gothic Invasions and Roman Historiography

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English; Italian
• Published: Holzhausen 2020
• Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical history / classical civilisation; Historiography; Classical texts; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Medieval history; Byzantine Empire; Palaeography (history of writing); Material culture; Late Ancient History, Ancient Historiography, Goths, Germanic tribes, Invasions into the Roman Empire, the Third Century CE, Ancient Greek Literature, Dexippus, Scythica Vindobonensia, Dexippus Vindobonensis, Palimpsest, Balkans; ÖFOS 2012, Ancient history; ÖFOS 2012, Classical philology; ÖFOS 2012, Palaeography; spätantike Geschichte, antike Historiographie, Goten, Germanen, Einfälle ins Römische Reich, 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr., antike griechische Literatur, Dexippus, Scythica Vindobonensia, Dexippus Vindobonensis, Palimpsest, Balkan; ÖFOS 2012, Alte Geschichte; ÖFOS 2012, Klassische Philologie; ÖFOS 2012, Paläographie
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The volume, which has emerged from an international conference of the same title, unites a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions on invasions of Goths and other Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire, focusing primarily on the third-century CE. The newly discovered fragments of th...