"Where is the Senate? Where the People? The very buildings we behold crumbling around us." Image: The Favourites of Honorius, John William Waterhouse, (source). Emperor Honorius's disastrous reign led to the end of the Western Empire. In the autumn of AD 590, as a Lombard army marched on Rome and as the city tried to …
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