The Rise and Fall of Alarik

The Goths pop up again early in the 390s, and this is when we first meet Alarik. Our sources report some kind of rebellion in the Balkans in 391. But whether this was a full-scale revolt of Gothic army units or just large-scale banditry is impossible to say. When we see him next, he was the commander of a unit of Gothic soldiers a few years later. Theodosius marched from the Eastern Empire to the Western to confront a U-surfer by the name of Eugenius.