5: Just How Screwed Up Was the Later Roman Empire?
The Fall of Rome Podcast
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In the last few episodes of this show, we've kept the focus on the barbarians. I took that perspective because, far too often, the barbarians play into the story of the fall of the Roman Empire merely as the agents of chaos. But the barbarians weren't an abstract force whose function was to move the world from one stage of history to another. There were people, real people, who had hopes and dreams and aspirations. That's what I wanted to focus on in the beginning.
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