
4: The Gothic Sack of Rome
The Fall of Rome Podcast
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The Roman Army: A Dynamic Institution
The Roman army was largely separate from the civilian world. It even had something like its own language, a basic kind of Latin interspersed with lots of slang and words derived from Germanic languages. To be a soldier in the late Roman world was to have a distinct professional identity that separated the individual from the civilianworld.
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