Shortly after he's crowned emperor of the crumbling Roman Empire in 476 A.D., young Romulus is in short order orphaned, deposed and exiled by the hordes of
Odoacer (Peter Mullan), a Goth usurper.
The empire in the West ended 476, when Romulus Augustulus was banished by the barbarian
Odoacer. Zeno continued to rule in the East until 491.
475: Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor: his deposition less than a year later by Germanic Arian Christian warrior
Odoacer is seen as marking the end of the Western Empire.
The empire in the West lived on in name, until the barbarian
Odoacer, the real power in Italy, wrote to the Eastern Emperor and proposed that there was no longer a need for a Western Emperor.
A History of Rome traite de la periode depuis les origines de Rome jusqu'a la mort du roi
Odoacer. Cette oeuvre se divise en trois parties, qui correspondent a trois grandes epoques de l'histoire romaine: I, des origines de Rome a la bataille d'Actium en 31 avant J.-C.
A remarkable figure, Theodoric was often cruel and violent, as shown in the executions of
Odoacer, Boethius, and Symmachus; he was an energetic ruler, known for his religious toleration as well as his skillful administration and concern for his subjects; the greatest of the Romanized barbarian kings.
Odoacer, a barbarian soldier serving in the army, then convinced his fellow soldiers that, should they agree to follow him, he would arrange to have land redistributed amongst them in lieu of their expected salaries.