What attracts you to Late Rome?

[Alanus]

What attracted me to late Rome?

The so-called "barbarians." I'm one of them; and within them I find far better men and heros than I do in the Romans. Fritigern tops the list, followed by Alaric. Stillicho is right up there, and Aetius came from barbarian roots. These were the great men of the Late Western Empire. They had guts and a style of morality that the Romans had lost. The greatest century, for the accomplishments of individual movers and shakers, was from 376 to 476. In the Caesar types, and in Julius himself, I find a lack of something the later opposition-- the barbarians-- :whistle: possessed.