On 4 September AD 476, the Western Roman Empire came to an end. No great battle was fought, no great foreign invasion force marched upon the capital, nor was there an iconic enemy in the shape of a second Hannibal who annihilated Rome’s armies.

Theme: The Fall of Rome

• Jean Du Plessis, ‘Historical introduction’
• Gabriele Esposito, ’The career of a Late Roman General’ (Source)
• Konstantin Nossov, ’The walls of Rome’
• Robert Vermaat, ’The reenactor: a Late Roman heavy infantryman’
• Corrado Re, ‘Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, AD 451’
• Mark McCaffery, ’The breaking of Roman Britain’
• Marc G. DeSantis, ’The Vandals capture North Africa’
• Sidney E. Dean, ’The War of Ravenna'

Features:

• Robert Holmes, ’The Gorgoneion and ancient armour'
• Duncan Campbell, ‘What really happened at Aegospotami?'
• David L. Reinke, ‘Box office gladiators'