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	Stilicho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon his return to Constantinople at the successful conclusion of peace talks, Stilicho was promoted to general and was tasked with defending the empire against attacks from the Visigoths, a role which he undertook for some twenty years.
		Although it was within his ability to contest the charges, Stilicho did not resist, either because of guilt or for fear of the consequences to the already precarious state of the Western Empire.
		Stilicho may have schemed to obtain the province of Dalmatia for the West, even though the troops he used to achieve the victory were from the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flavius_Stilicho (919 words)

	Stilicho -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stilicho was tasked with defending the West against attacks from the (A member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France) Visigoths, a role he endured for some twenty years.
		A chief debate regarding Stilicho is whether his defense of the empire was more out of (Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others) self-interest than loyalty to Rome or Theodosius.
		Stilicho may have schemed to obtain the province of (A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea; mountainous with many islands) Dalmatia for the West, even though the troops he used to achieve the victory were from the east.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stilicho.htm (668 words)

	Stilicho
		He was born in Germany, joined the Roman army and rose to the rank of general by the reign of Theodosius I.
		Stilicho was tasked with defending the Western Empire against attacks from the Visigoths, a role he endured for some twenty years.
		Neither proved to be effective emperors, and Stilicho came to be in fact commander in chief of the Roman armies.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/s/st/stilicho.html (185 words)

	biology - Stilicho
		Stilicho was tasked with defending the West against attacks from the Visigoths, a role he endured for some twenty years.
		The courtiers spread rumors that he planned the assassination of Rufinus, of intreguing with his old adversary Alaric, of inviting the barbarians into Gaul in 406, and of planning to place his son on the imperial throne.
		Besides the relevant legal records in the Codex Theodosianus, the major primary source for the events of Stilicho's reign are the panegyrics addressed to him by the poet Claudian.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Stilicho (462 words)

	Arcadius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flavius Arcadius (377/378 - May 1, 408) was a Roman Emperor (ruled 395 - 408 AD) in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.
		Honorius was under the control of Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by Rufinus.
		Arcadius himself was more concerned with appearing to be a pious Christian than he was with political or military matters, and he died, only nominally in control of his empire, in 408.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Arcadius (233 words)

	Flavius Stilicho -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Before his death Theodosius appointed Stilicho to be the guardian of his son Honorius in the West and Rufinus to be the guardian of his son Arcadius in the East.
		Stilicho had a great military advantage over his rival, for the army Theodosius had assembled to crush the usurper Eugenius was still concentrated in the West under Stilicho's command when Theodosius died.
		In 398 Stilicho's daughter Maria was married to the emperor Honorius, and Stilicho himself became consul in 400.
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	Stilicho, Flavius on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stilicho did not resist, although it was in his power to do so.
		Rumor accused him of planning the assassination of Rufinus, of plotting to make his son emperor, of making secret agreements with Alaric, and of inviting (406) the barbarians into Gaul; but evidence to support the charges is lacking.
		Stilicho is highly regarded in the verse of the poet Claudian.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Stilicho.asp (251 words)

	Honorius
		Stilicho was half Vandal, half Roman, and married to the emperor's cousin Serena.
		Clearly this assassination was the work of Stilicho and it did irreparable damage to the relationship between the eastern and the western empire.
		The troops at Ticinum (Pavia) were persuaded to stage a mutiny against their leader and in AD 408 Stilicho surrendered at Ravenna to the emperor and was executed.
	www.roman-empire.net /collapse/honorius.html (1937 words)

	Stilicho, Flavius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stilicho, Flavius (359-408), a celebrated Roman general and statesman.
		Stilicho rose to high rank in the army through his military ability, and, when he had satisfactorily performed an important mission to Persia, the Emperor Theodosius the Great gave him his niece in marriage and made him commander-in-chief of the Roman army.
		Stilicho was accused of forming an alliance with Alaric, in the hope of being able to introduce his own family to the imperial succession.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol5/stilicho-flavius.htm (236 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Flavius Honorius
		Stilicho endeavoured to eradicate abuses in the administration, remained on good terms with the Senate and, in order to keep the young emperor under his influence, married him to his daughter Maria.
		When Honorius was menaced by Alaric in Milan early in 402, Stilicho hastened to his assistance from Rhætia with legions summoned for that purpose from Britain and Germany; he rescued the emperor from his precarious situation and repulsed the Goths with great loss at Pollentia (4 April, 402) and Verona (403).
		Their son, Flavius Placidus Valentinian III, whose energetic mother wielded the sceptre for him, was invested with the purple after a brief interregnum of the usurper John, following the death of Honorius on 26 August, 423.
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	STILICHO, FLAVIUS (?-4o8) - Online Information article about STILICHO, FLAVIUS (?-4o8)
		Stilicho and Serena were named guardians of the youthful See also:
		Africa, and Stilicho was even more closely allied to the imperial See also:
		time that Stilicho was plotting with Alaric and with Germans in Gaul and taking other treasonable steps in See also:
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	Alaric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Eastern emperor Flavius Arcadius in 397 appointed Alaric magister militum or dux ("master of the soldiers") in Illyricum.
		In 400 Alaric occupied the Po's valley, but he was defeated by the Roman general Flavius Stilicho at Pollentia (modern Pollenza) on April 6, 402, and at Verona in 403, forced to withdraw from the peninsula.
		After Stilicho was murdered in August 408, an antibarbarian party took power in Rome and incited the Roman troops to massacre the wives and children of tribesmen who were serving in the Roman army.
	www.italycyberguide.com /History/factspersons/alaric.htm (448 words)

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		Stilicho retired to Ravenna, where he was treacherously taken into captivity and executed.
		Stilicho's political opponents.andquot; 1 Stilicho retired to Ravenna, where he was taken into captivity.
		STILICHO STILICHO, FLAVIUS (?4o8), Roman general and statesman, was the son of a Vandal who had served as an officer in the army of the emperor Valens (364378).
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	Alaric and the Sack of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was Stilicho who first insisted that the Goblins were intelligent, and he was the first to negotiate face to face with the enemy.
		It appears that it was here that Stilicho first came to respect his adversary and to understand truly the seriousness of the threat to the Free Folk.
		The generals who succeeded Stilicho were all contemptuous of the Goblins and were ill-prepared to deal with him.
	www.idbsu.edu /people/sknox/altearth/firstdarkage/alaric.html (637 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : The Last Roman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was a meticulously written invitation from the great General Flavius Stilicho himself, congratulating him on his new office and requesting his presence at a midday meal in the Imperial Palace.
		Stilicho and several other senators were lounging on couches as a veritable crowd of slaves rushed around them, bringing food and wine on large silver platters.
		Stilicho waited until the only sounds were the rustling of clothing, scattered coughs, and persistent chewing coming from one corner; only then did he speak.
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	Flavius Stilicho
		Rivalry had already existed between Stilicho and Rufinus, the praetorian praefect of the East, who had exercised considerable influence over the emperor and who now was invested with the guardianship of Arcadius.
		It is certain, however, that he was suspected by Honorius and abandoned by his own troops, and that he fled to Ravenna, and, having been induced by false promises to quit the church in which he had taken sanctuary, was assassinated on the 23rd of August 408.
		The principal sources for the life of Stilicho are the histories of Zosimus and of Orosius and the flattering verses of Claudian.
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	Stilicho, Last Defender of Rome
		Stilicho appears never to have abandoned his dream to unite the armies of east and west through possession of Illyricum.
		Stilicho now sought alliance with Alaric with a plan to move jointly to control that vast connecting region between the eastern and western empires.
		Stilicho had managed to offend both the pagans in Rome (by a perceived lack of respect for their ancient temples) as well as vituperative Christian Trinitarians.
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	Alaric Trashes Rome -- 410 AD
		Stilicho might have finally defeated Alaric if not for the stupidity of the Emperor and then the sudden and uncharacteristic bravado of the Senate, who, instead of sending General Stilicho to the front, conspired in his execution.
		Stilicho, also, in the meanwhile, and in accordance with the will of Theodosius, became the guardian, protector, and top general of Honorius, a twelve-year-old son of Theodosius, whom Theodosius had set up as puppet emperor in the West.
		Stilicho soldiered on, keeping the Visigoths at bay, repulsing the northern wing of the Vandals, who crossed the frozen Rhine River in 407, containing a revolt in England led by Constantine III.
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	Additional Reading (from Flavius Stilicho) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		Roman legal writer and politician who made public the technical rules of legal procedure, which had been kept secret by the patricians and the pontifices (advisers to the king, dictator, or emperor) so that they could maintain their advantage over the plebeians.
		Flavius learned procedure while serving as secretary to the censor and consul Appius Claudius Caecus.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-6915?tocId=6915 (771 words)

	History of the World Part 3 401 to 500 CE
		Romans, under Flavius Stilicho (a Vandal), repel Visigoth invasion of Italy led by Alaric I, at the Battle of Pollentia.
		Stilicho strips the western Roman frontier of forces, in attempt to contain Visigoth invasion of Italy, saving Italy but causing the Rhine frontier to collapse.
		Stilicho repels barbarian invasion of Italy under Radagaisus in a battle near Fiesole.
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	Stilicho - stilicho @ Last.FM - Your personal music network - Personalised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stilicho, the half-Vandal, half-Roman, who was Rome's bulwark in her final years.
		Stilicho, the Germanic commander of the Roman army, fought against Alaric the Stilicho was one of the last great Roman military commanders in the West;
		He was a weak ruler, dominated by his magister militum Stilicho, Honorius had Stilicho killed for all this, but it was a pointless gesture.
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	Stilicho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He was successful in his mission, and when he returned was given Serena to marry, the niece of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. Stilicho next led several campaigns in Thrace and Britain.
		When Theodosius died in 395, Stilicho and Serena acted as adoptive parents for the young Western Emperor Honorius (11 years old), and Stilicho became the virtual ruler of the Empire.
		Stilicho then fought with Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, whom he defeated in 401 and 403.
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	Honorius
		The history of the first thirteen years of the reign of Honorius is inseparably connected with the name of Flavius Stilicho, his guardian and father-in-law.
		After the downfall and murder of Stilicho (408), the result of palace intrigues, the emperor was under the control of incompetent favorites.
		Honorius was one of the feeblest emperors who ever occupied the throne, and the dismemberment of the West was only temporarily averted by the efforts of Stilicho, and, later, of Constantius, a capable general who overthrew the usurpers and was rewarded with a share in the government.
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	Flavius Stilicho Biography / Biography of Flavius Stilicho Biography
		Flavius Stilicho (died 408) was a Roman general of Vandal origin who maintained the territorial integrity of the Western Roman Empire during the reign of the emperor Honorius.
		The father of Stilicho was from the German tribe of the Vandals but served with distinction as a cavalry officer in the Roman army.
		The Emperor further showed appreciation for the ability of Stilicho by marrying him to his niece Serena.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-flavius-stilicho (231 words)

	Claudian
		Theodosius fought a fierce and bloody battle in 394 against the forces of the usurper Eugenius at the River Frigidus in which both Alaric the Visigoth and the master general Flavius Stilicho led imperial troops to victory.
		Here in the capital he associated himself with the court, and he is best known for panegyrics, or writings filled with praise, mostly of Honorius and his general Flavius Stilicho.
		Last, we have de bello Gothico (on the Gothic war), which is sometimes taken as evidence that Stilicho removed one of the British legions in his bid to strengthen the defence of Italy.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artsou/claudian.htm (781 words)

	All words on Arcadius
		: See also: Arcadius of Antioch, Greek grammarian of the 2nd century Flavius Arcadius (377/378–May 1, 408) was Roman Emperor in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from 395 until his death.
		Arcadius was the elder son of Theodosius I and Flacilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor.
		As Emperors, Honorius was under the control of Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by Rufinus.
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		Stilicho was a Roman General, of Vandal origin, who worked under Roman Emperor Honorius, son of Theodosius.
		Stilicho, who had come a second time to the assistance of Arcadius and who was Three months later Stilicho himself and the chief ministers of his party
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		In full FLAVIUS HONORIUS, Roman emperor in the West from 393 to 423, a period when much of the Western Empire was overrun by invading tribes and Rome was captured and plundered by the Visigoths.
		The younger son of Theodosius I (emperor 379-395) and Aelia Flacilla, Honorius was elevated to the rank of augustus by Theodosius on Jan. 23, 393, and became sole ruler of the West at age 10, upon his father's death (Jan. 17, 395).
		When Maria died he married her younger sister, Thermantia, but terminated the union after Stilicho was executed on suspicion of treason in August 408.
	www.jaenfield.com /genealogy/Enf_Bry/n66.html (7724 words)

	Flavius Aetius:The man who could have saved the Roman Empire from the destruction - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		The death of Flavius Aetius sounded the death knell for the
		The "Roman" infantry was comprised almost entirely of non-Roman Foederati whose mission on the battlefield was primarily as a place holder and not the active strike force it once was.
		I have to agree that the Empire was pretty much doomed by that stage, it was economically unable to sustain itself.
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	Serena (Roman) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A member of the House of Theodosius, she was the niece of Theodosius I.
		A resident at the court of her cousin, Honorius, she selected a bride for the court poet, Claudian, and took care of Honorius' half-sister, her cousin Galla Placidia.
		Stilicho was executed in 408; Serena's fate is unknown.
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