The Visigoths counterattacked ... Photograph by Sylvain Sonnet, Getty Images During Attila’s boyhood, when Rome was sacked by the Goths in A.D. 410, the official imperial capital was already ...

However, the Vandal Sack of Rome forever sealed their reputation ... While the event was less destructive than the earlier sack by the Visigoths in 410, it tarnished the Vandal name for posterity.

And while “Wicked” has crushed “Gladiator II” at the box office thus far—worse than when, horribile dictu, the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 A.D.—history tells us that we shan’t soon ...

For centuries, Rome had been dealing with Germanic tribes, but by the 300s, the Goths had managed to infiltrate the empire.