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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 4004770, member: 83956"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] I find that Theodoric coin fascinating. I wonder if the inclusion of the she-wolf and twins manifests a self-consciousness that he's a ruler with Gothic roots, as if he wants to stress (or give the illusion of) Roman continuity, sort of like how Maxentius used Rome-specific imagery to underscore his commitment to that particular city and its traditions. I've been reading Jim O'Donnell's </p><p><font size="5"><b>The Ruin of the Roman Empire</b></font>, which presents "barbarian" rule after 476 A.D. as still traditionally Roman in many ways. That 476 dividing line thus is more significant for later historians than it was for 5th-century Romans. Did Theodoric know that something had changed? Was his use of wolf and twins imagery an attempt to suggest it hadn't?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 4004770, member: 83956"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] I find that Theodoric coin fascinating. I wonder if the inclusion of the she-wolf and twins manifests a self-consciousness that he's a ruler with Gothic roots, as if he wants to stress (or give the illusion of) Roman continuity, sort of like how Maxentius used Rome-specific imagery to underscore his commitment to that particular city and its traditions. I've been reading Jim O'Donnell's [SIZE=5][B]The Ruin of the Roman Empire[/B][/SIZE], which presents "barbarian" rule after 476 A.D. as still traditionally Roman in many ways. That 476 dividing line thus is more significant for later historians than it was for 5th-century Romans. Did Theodoric know that something had changed? Was his use of wolf and twins imagery an attempt to suggest it hadn't?[/QUOTE]
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