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Anonymous No.17989216 [Report] >>17989424 >>17989491 >>17990072 >>17990265
Flavius Ricimerus
>heir to the Suebian and Visigoth thrones
>Roman citizen, patrician, consul (459), senator, magister militum et dictator
>defeated ostrogoths, alans, vandals, usurpers
>ruled 18 months only obeying to the True Emperor, Leo Magnus Thrax I
AVE FLAVIVS RICIMERVS RESTITVTOR IMPERIVM!
Anonymous No.17989287 [Report]
AVE DICTATOR FLAVIVS RICIMERVS!
Anonymous No.17989297 [Report]
ROMANITAS AETERNA!
ROMANITAS VICTRIX!
Anonymous No.17989424 [Report]
>>17989216 (OP)
This mf was everything that the senate falsely accused Stilicho of being. Get what you fuckin deserve I guess.
Anonymous No.17989491 [Report]
>>17989216 (OP)
Why did the name Flavius become so important after the Empire became Christian?
Anonymous No.17990072 [Report] >>17990265
>>17989216 (OP)
Any books on Ricimer or this period you can recommend? French or English
Anonymous No.17990265 [Report]
>>17989216 (OP)
>>ruled 18 months only obeying to the True Emperor, Leo Magnus Thrax I
Which is why he waged a brutal civil war to kill the other legitimate co-emperor who Leo sent to Italy.
>>17990072
I don't believe there are any monographs of Ricimer. Patricians and Emperors by Ian Hughes is a good narrative of the events post Valentinian III. The Falls of Rome by Salzman is just about the Senate in Late Antiquity but there is an entire chapter covering the civil war of 472 which is the best I've found for those events. There's a bunch of other books but they largely cover the same ground.