In 476, the German chieftain Odoacer overthrew Romulus Augustulus, the last western Roman emperor, but that doesn’t mean that Roman culture or influence disappeared overnight. The Late Antique Little ...

On 4 September 476 CE, Odoacer, a Germanic warlord, deposed Romulus, the puppet boy emperor of Rome. This event is traditionally taught as the “Fall of Rome” as if it were an Historic Big Deal, but at ...