The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . UNESON THE MARCH .... GOTHIC KING IN HIS CARA PAGE OF THE GOTHIC GOSPELSCOLUMN ERECTED AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN HONOUROF THE GOTHIC CONQUESTS OF THEODOSIUSTHE EMPRESS PLACIDIA AND HER SON AETIUS CHURCH OF SAN VITALE, RAVENNA THEODERICS PALACE, RAVENNA COINS OF THEODERIC PORTION OF A GOTHIC DEED COINS OF THEODERIC CHURCH OF SAN APOLLINARE IN CLASSE, NEAR PAGE Frontispiece6 lo1417 22 25 60 n104109162167 173188190 RAVENNA 193 XX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAG? COINS OF ATHALARIC 200 JUSTINIAN AND HIS NOBLES 202 THEODORA AND H
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . UNESON THE MARCH .... GOTHIC KING IN HIS CARA PAGE OF THE GOTHIC GOSPELSCOLUMN ERECTED AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN HONOUROF THE GOTHIC CONQUESTS OF THEODOSIUSTHE EMPRESS PLACIDIA AND HER SON AETIUS CHURCH OF SAN VITALE, RAVENNA THEODERICS PALACE, RAVENNA COINS OF THEODERIC PORTION OF A GOTHIC DEED COINS OF THEODERIC CHURCH OF SAN APOLLINARE IN CLASSE, NEAR PAGE Frontispiece6 lo1417 22 25 60 n104109162167 173188190 RAVENNA 193 XX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAG? COINS OF ATHALARIC 200 JUSTINIAN AND HIS NOBLES 202 THEODORA AND HER LADIES ...... 206 COINS OF THEODAHAD . , . 219 SERVIAN WALL ON THE AVENTINE . j . 229 COIN WITH> OF MATASWINTHA . . 233 THE MAUSOLEUM OF HADRIAN 238 COINS OF WITIGIS ........ 257 COINS STRUCK AT RAVENNA 275 COPPER COINS STRUCK AT ROME DURING THE GOTHIC DOMINION ....... 285 COINS OF TOTILA 296 COINS OF TEIA 311 COIN OF ERMENEGILD 323 COIN OF LEOVIGILD . 326 COIN OF SISEBUT 334 GOTHIC CROWNS 336 COIN OF RECCESWINTH 341 THE AMPHITHEATRE AT nImES ... 346. THE STORY OF THE GOTHS. I. WHO WERE THE GOTHS? More than three hundred years before the birth ofChrist, a traveller from the Greek colony of Marseilles,named Pytheas, made known to the civilized worldthe existence of a people called Guttones, who livednear the Frische Haff, in the country since known asEast Prussia, and traded in the amber that wasgathered on the Baltic shores.^ For four wholecenturies these amber merchants of the Baltic areheard of no more. The elder Pliny, a Roman writerwho died in the year 79 after Christ, tells us that inhis time they were still dwelling in the same neigh-bourhood ; and a generation later, Tacitus, the greatestof Roman historians, twice mentions their name, though This first sentence of our story contains a statement that has beenquestioned. A great German scholar, Karl Miillenhoff, maintains thatthe word Guttones, in Plinys quotations from Pytheas, is a misreading,and that the
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