Professor Peter Heather

One who seems to have been the garrison commander in and around Hadrian's Wall, but then also someone else who's called the Count of the Maritime Tract is killed. And I suspect that that is the ancestral command position for the Count of the Saxon Shore. The Saxon Shore. I think. I think what Stilicho is doing is saying, I've come Completely changed everything. He's renamed it.

One who seems to have been the garrison commander in and around Hadrian's Wall, but then also someone else who's called the Count of the Maritime Tract is killed. And I suspect that that is the ancestral command position for the Count of the Saxon Shore. The Saxon Shore. I think. I think what Stilicho is doing is saying, I've come Completely changed everything. He's renamed it.

We've never seen any political action like that, of course, ever.

We've never seen any political action like that, of course, ever.

We've never seen any political action like that, of course, ever.

It looks as though, and you know, the sources are really rubbish. It's very important to understand that. What's really frustrating is there was a wonderful account of this written by an East Roman ambassador, a man called Olympiodorus, who knew everything, wrote everything down, but it only survives in fragments. Damn. Yes. So there are hints.

It looks as though, and you know, the sources are really rubbish. It's very important to understand that. What's really frustrating is there was a wonderful account of this written by an East Roman ambassador, a man called Olympiodorus, who knew everything, wrote everything down, but it only survives in fragments. Damn. Yes. So there are hints.

It looks as though, and you know, the sources are really rubbish. It's very important to understand that. What's really frustrating is there was a wonderful account of this written by an East Roman ambassador, a man called Olympiodorus, who knew everything, wrote everything down, but it only survives in fragments. Damn. Yes. So there are hints.

And two different people used him, Zosimus and Sosimun. And then there are independent fragments that survive in a very brief summary. And the trouble is that Zosimus certainly at least confused a few things as well. So this makes it quite tricky to know exactly what happens. But the broad outline would seem to be that in response to the Rhine invasion and of the Vandals, Alans and Suevs.

And two different people used him, Zosimus and Sosimun. And then there are independent fragments that survive in a very brief summary. And the trouble is that Zosimus certainly at least confused a few things as well. So this makes it quite tricky to know exactly what happens. But the broad outline would seem to be that in response to the Rhine invasion and of the Vandals, Alans and Suevs.

And two different people used him, Zosimus and Sosimun. And then there are independent fragments that survive in a very brief summary. And the trouble is that Zosimus certainly at least confused a few things as well. So this makes it quite tricky to know exactly what happens. But the broad outline would seem to be that in response to the Rhine invasion and of the Vandals, Alans and Suevs.

Yeah, well, in 406.

Yeah, well, in 406.

Yeah, well, in 406.

And Stilicho is unable to deal with that. That a local British military commander, well, a series of them, but it ends up being Constantine. He's the third and the one that doesn't get killed by the soldiers.

And Stilicho is unable to deal with that. That a local British military commander, well, a series of them, but it ends up being Constantine. He's the third and the one that doesn't get killed by the soldiers.

And Stilicho is unable to deal with that. That a local British military commander, well, a series of them, but it ends up being Constantine. He's the third and the one that doesn't get killed by the soldiers.

He takes the field army troops from southern Britain, unites them with the field army troops, regional field army troops on the Rhine and creates a user patient and sells himself as the man who's going to deal with the Vandal threat. So he takes these troops off. And as far as we can see, they never come back.

He takes the field army troops from southern Britain, unites them with the field army troops, regional field army troops on the Rhine and creates a user patient and sells himself as the man who's going to deal with the Vandal threat. So he takes these troops off. And as far as we can see, they never come back.

He takes the field army troops from southern Britain, unites them with the field army troops, regional field army troops on the Rhine and creates a user patient and sells himself as the man who's going to deal with the Vandal threat. So he takes these troops off. And as far as we can see, they never come back.