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The great Roman general, Titus Andronicus, returns home after fighting Rome's enemies for the last 10 years. He brings along his captives, Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her three sons and Aaron the Moor.Having lost 21 of his 25 sons in the conflict, Titus decides to sacrifice one of Tamora's sons, following Roman customs. He then offers Tamora as a slave to the new Roman emperor, Saturninus. Meanwhile, Saturninus promises Titus to make his daughter...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and Spain, dominating early medieval Europe. Yet the last Gothic kingdom fell more than a thousand years ago, and the Goths disappeared as an independent people. Over the centuries that followed, the vanished...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving "warrior...
5) Barbarians
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Explore the origins of the Huns, Goths, Vikings, and Mongols. Shot on location featuring interviews, reenactments and narrated by Clancy Brown, this brings to life the powerful leaders, and drive that kept empires in terror for centuries.
6) Goths
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"A history of the Goths, who rose as a power in the early third century and, under their famous leader Alaric, succeeded in sacking Rome in 410."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Translated texts for historians volume 11
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First published 1991, reprinted 2004, 2010.
Language
English
Description
This volume brings together many important historical texts, the majority of them (speeches of Themistius, the Passion of St Saba, and evidence relating to the life and work of Ulfila) not previously available in English translation. --
"Of all the Germanic peoples who were later to carve out successor kingdoms to the Roman empire, much more is known about the Goths than of any other group in the period before the great migrations of the late fourth...
13) Barbarians I
Series
Best of the History Channel volume III
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The savage story of some of history's most fearsome tribes: the Vikings, Goths, Mongols and Huns, who cut a swath of destruction through the heart of the Roman wold for the better part of a millennium.
15) If UR stabby
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Who's positively magical and ready for sunshine, giggles, and sliding down rainbows? Not Stabby! Meet the world's surliest unicorn. This stab-happy unicorn is a fan-favorite character from Mother Goth Rhymes and now he's getting his own book! If UR Stabby follows Stabby as he deals with life's challenges the only way he knows how?horn first --
16) Titus
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Titus Andronicus returns to Rome after defeating the Goths, bringing with him Queen Tamora, whose eldest son he has sacrificed. The late emperor's son Saturninus is supposed to marry Titus's daughter Lavinia, however, when his brother Bassianus runs away with her instead, Saturninus marries Tamora. Saturninus and Tamora then plot revenge against Titus. Beginning with the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, bloodshed and brutality run rampant, culminating...
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