Total War: Attila

[Robert Vermaat]

Tell Edward Gibbons and other historians that wrote about Stilicho otherwise. They mentioned Stilicho's barbarian ties quite often.....

Gladly, but he wrote during the 19th century so it might take some effort to reach him. Also, that should tell you something about the quality of some historians. Gibbon had an agenda to show the reasons for the end of Rome - barbarians was one of them. He had no problems taking ancient sources literally which stressed the barbarian background of Stilicho, who nontheless acted like every other power-hungry Roman would have done. I somehow think that if his Vandal father had named him Flavius Aemilianus or something equally Latin, we would not be having this discussion.