VI century AD... The Roman Empire and the barbarians, the confrontation between King Theodoric the Great and Byzantium, the love of a Gothic commander and a noble Roman woman, hordes of barbarians and rivers of madness and blood, intrigue, skirmishes, battles... The fall of the Roman Empire became the first geopolitical event in human history a catastrophe that led to a chain reaction of collapses of smaller states and led to the Great Migration. The dark era from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD was accompanied by incredible violence and bloodshed. Plagiarism: borrowing the translation of D. I. Kotlyar The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.