The Battle of Athens

Dexippus was a historian as well as a soldier and a statesman. He helped shed at least some light on the third century when goths came knocking. The barbarians had appeared so suddenly that there was very little the athenians could do to prevent the barbarians from overrunning their city. When he returned home, dexippus found athens was now a smouldering ruin. But according to the famous anecdote, one of the gothic chiefs had seen his men preparing to burn it down and put a stop to their plan. So despite their best efforts, the romans still found themselves scrambling after a gothic army now loose in the aege