
166- As Long As She's Nice To Look At
The History of Rome
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Theodoric and the Rise of the Roman Empire
The Roman world rejoiced when Galloplicidia was set free. How much of a difference in her condition Placidia herself saw between living with the Goths and living at the Imperial Court would be an interesting question to have an answer to. Theodoric spent 418 campaigning against the remnants of the Alons and Vandals, driving the survivors south where they join the ranks of the only major unpassified tribe of Vandals left on the peninsula. These survivors pledged their loyalty to the Vandal King Gundaric, who rechristened himself Gundaric,. This reinforced Vandal army was now the last majorunpassified barbarian tribe left in the western empire.
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