The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ed from, Athens, 66 GOTHS IN DACIA £ and they actually spoiled the Temple of Diana atEphesus. In the region of the Danube the Gothsoverran the Roman province of Dacia and raidedthe lands to the south of the river almost to thegates of Constantinople. Battles were fought withvarying success. In 250 they captured Philippo-polis, and as they were retiring laden with bootythey were attacked bythe army of the Em-peror Decius. TheRomans suffered asevere defeat and De-cius himself fell in theaction. Map E illus-trates the localitiesand dates of thesem
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ed from, Athens, 66 GOTHS IN DACIA £ and they actually spoiled the Temple of Diana atEphesus. In the region of the Danube the Gothsoverran the Roman province of Dacia and raidedthe lands to the south of the river almost to thegates of Constantinople. Battles were fought withvarying success. In 250 they captured Philippo-polis, and as they were retiring laden with bootythey were attacked bythe army of the Em-peror Decius. TheRomans suffered asevere defeat and De-cius himself fell in theaction. Map E illus-trates the localitiesand dates of thesemovements by seaand ^^^* Gothic Raids by Sea and Land. Temp. Twenty years later Decius and Claudius, 250-270. in this same Balkan region the Emperor ClaudiusGothicus annihilated an immense Gothic army andstruck thereby a blow that had far-reaching the first place the commanding position of theGoths in that region was so far recognized that themachinery of Roman government was now re-moved from Dacia, which was abandoned to the 67. MIGRATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS Visigoths. There was still left however much thatwas Roman, and this exercised a civilizing Influenceon the newcomers. The great roads/ as remarks, the cities, the mines, the baths,the camps, the temples, remained to Impress, tofascinate, to attract, the minds of the , during the comparatively peacefulperiod that follows for nearly a century (from 270to 367), the Visigoths (and also the Ostrogoths)received Christianity in its Arian form through theagency of the missionary bishop U Ifilas, and in otherways became strongly tinctured with classical civili-zation. They lived of course under their own lawsand paid no imperial taxes, but in military mattersthey acted as foederati or allies, co-operatingwith the Roman forces though not formally enrolledeither as legionaries or auxilia. The position of theGoths during this important but uneventful century,with the approximate situatio
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