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Books
The Enemies of Rome : From Hannibal to Attila the Hun by Phillip Matyszak (Thames& Hudson, 2004)
Enemies of the Roman Order : Treason, Unrest and Alienation in the Empire by Ramsay MacMullen (Routledge, 1992)
The Age of Attila : Fifth-century Byzantium and the Barbarians by by C. D. Gordon; foreword by Arthur E R Boak (University of Michigan Press, 1960)
Hannibal's War : Books Twenty-one to Thirty by Livy ; translated by J.C. Yardley ; with an introduction and notes by Dexter Hoyos (Oxford University Press, 2006)
About the author
Peter Heather is Fellow and Tutor in history at Worcester College Oxford, having previously taught for 11 years at UCL. He is an expert in the later Roman Empire, the 'barbarians' who invaded it, and the post-Roman successor states generated by the collision. He has published widely on the subject, including The Fall of the Roman Empire (MacMillan 2005); Politics, Philosophy and Empire (Liverpool, 2001), and The Goths (Blackwell 1996).
