Flavius Stilicho: The Betrayed General Who Was Rome’s Last Defense Against the Barbarians

On a late summer day in 410 AD, Visigoth King Alaric sacked the Eternal City. Rome’s walls had not been breached by an outside kingdom in almost a millennium. The man who could have saved the empire was betrayed a few years earlier. A century before, in 310 AD, the Roman Empire split into two halves, the Western Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire. The East was home to the great city of Constantinople. There was much wealth in that half. The armies were stronger. The Eastern Roman Empire (which would later be called the Byzantine Empire) would last till 1453 AD. But as for the Western Roman Empire, the home of Rome, the home of the original Roman people, its days were almost at an end. 476 AD would be its last year. <a href="https://medium.com/the-history-inquiry/flavius-stilicho-the-betrayed-general-who-was-romes-last-defense-against-the-barbarians-dc0baecf9a96">Website</a>