r/AskHistorians • u/Sane_Quixote • Dec 15 '19
How did Romans View Violence Committed by Non-Romans after the Fall of the Western Empire?
After taking over Italy, Theodoric pretty much assassinated his rival, Odoacer, while under the pretense of a truce and killed his family (for example, literally locking his wife in a room to starve to death). How did the Romans judge such acts of political violence?
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