Alaric's Refusal to Use the Goths to Seize North Africa

Alaric deposed atalis in early four ten. Atalus didn't have sufficient regular forces available to pull off the operation. There had been a power shift up in the ravenna court that did not bode well for alaric. Olympius, the man who had engineered stilico's execution, had fallen from favor and was replaced by saurus,. The two families had been rivals within the gothic community for i don't even know how long.