Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. by Noel Lenski

Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.

Noel Lenski

470 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. T...

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