. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . offend-ers, and made them pay for the building of new synagogues. This aroused bit-terness betweenthe ruler and hissubjects ofthe orthodoxchurch. The racial feel-i n g of theRomans againsttheir Gothic con-querors was thusinflamed. Accu-sations of treasonwere brought be-fore Theodoric against some of the noblest of the Romansenators and officials in his service. Boethius, head ofthe civil service under Theodoric, and his father-in-lawSymmachus, head of the Roman Senate, both men of learn-ing, were condemned to death on the char
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . offend-ers, and made them pay for the building of new synagogues. This aroused bit-terness betweenthe ruler and hissubjects ofthe orthodoxchurch. The racial feel-i n g of theRomans againsttheir Gothic con-querors was thusinflamed. Accu-sations of treasonwere brought be-fore Theodoric against some of the noblest of the Romansenators and officials in his service. Boethius, head ofthe civil service under Theodoric, and his father-in-lawSymmachus, head of the Roman Senate, both men of learn-ing, were condemned to death on the charge of treason, andexecuted. While awaiting his death in prison, Boethiuswrote his Consolation of Philosophy, a book which had agreat influence in the Middle Ages, and is still extant. 602. Importance of the Work of Theodoric.—When Theod-oric died in 526 a. d., he left no capable heir to continue hiswork. Even he had been unable to do away with the racialhatred of the Romans for the Goths. In the next thirtyyears his Ostrogothic kingdom went to pieces before the. si^-is^- v— Tomb of Theodoric at Ravenna. THE BARBARIANS BREAK INTO THE EMPIRE 473 Roman reaction led by Justinian, the emperor at Constan-tinople. But his life and work are very important, be-cause they foreshadow the final union of the German andRoman elements of the Western world into a Teutonic-Roman culture, upon the basis of which our modern Euro-pean and American life is founded. It was the new Frank-ish kingdom of Clovis which, after almost 300 years ofdevelopment and struggle, was to bring this about. TheFranks had one great advantage over the Ostrogoths, whoseArian faith formed a religious bar against a thorough under-standing with their Catholic neighbors—they had acceptedat the outset the Athanasian creed, and were therefore in aposition to meet the old Roman population on a basis ofreligious agreement. References for Outside Reading Robinson, Readings in European History, vol. I, pp. 29-51; Ogg,Source
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